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From: "S S" <mnemonician@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dispilio disputandum est (reply to Sotiropoulos)
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:21:38 +0000
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>From: "James M. Pfundstein" <jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
>Reply-To: classics@u.washington.edu
>To: classics@u.washington.edu
>Subject: Dispilio disputandum est (reply to Sotiropoulos)
>Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:03:19 -0400
>
>At 10:33 PM +0000 9/30/01, S S wrote:
>>Hmm... yes, well, I suppose it must be galling to some (who reside
>>in the purported "land of liberty") to know that there are still
>>places where people can believe, read, write, and accept what they
>>choose, as opposed to what others would have them swallow without
>>question.  Yes, it's disturbing to think that such behaviour abounds
>>in the very cradle of democracy (I hope we're still in agreement
>>that the Greeks did at least invent democracy)...
>
>Nothing is more common nowadays than someone who has confounded the
>right to speak with the right to be beyond criticism. In a free
>society, everyone has the former, but no one has the latter. SS has,
>as is his custom, been a little beforehand in claiming the crown of
>martyrdom.

I claimed nothing.  You're simply pre-chewing other people's food again.

>
>I share Joe Gannon's bemusement that anyone who can claim a past as
>glorious as that of ancient Greece should be even slightly interested
>in these specious archaeomarvels. But the chauvinist, I guess, is
>like the horse-leech's daughters: nothing can ever be enough.

I spoke too quickly when I thought you'd understood my intention, you went 
ahead and misrepresented my inquisitiveness anyway.  The only "specious 
archaeomarvels" I brought up were the so-called "Dispilio" tablets. So, I am 
not really sure what you're talking about...

But thanks for the latest in thinly veiled ad hominem attacks.

(Aside: I gather "chauvinist" is the recycled buzz word of fashion in the 
"academy" these days?)

Be Well,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

P.S.  Do you happen to have a copy of Joseph Yahuda's "Hebrew is Greek" 
haning around?  I'm willing to pay up to $1000 for a good condition copy.

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