From dlupher@ups.edu Thu Nov 16 13:47:42 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA21092 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:47:41 -0800 Received: from mail.ups.edu (main.ups.edu [192.124.98.219]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA04381 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:47:40 -0800 Received: from [207.207.116.71] (wyatt1dhcp71.ups.edu [207.207.116.71]) by mail.ups.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA00723 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:47:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001116161203.00a0b690@apollo.brooklyn.cuny.edu> References: <3A18CF80@smaug.ocis.temple.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:44:47 -0800 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Lupher Subject: Re: suggestions for readings at a wedding? John van Sickle suggests: >brief but celebratory the first vignette of the City at Peace >on Achlles' shield, which you might combine in pastiche with the >vignette of the vigna; (boys & girls courting) & the formal dance >at the close, in order: vigna, dance floor, marriage celebration. Speaking of pastiche, there is always Ausonius' "Nuptial Cento," cuttings and pastings from slews of Vergilian passages. Even if you don't want to use the whole thing, there are nice phrases you could steal (if one can steal what has already been stolen). Maybe the beginning of the chorus of maidens in Euripides "Phaethon" would serve also. And now that Elizabeth Vandiver has just stolen my other two suggestions, I'll churlishly suggest that some celebrants might frown at Od. 6.184's very Greek reference to the irritation a couple's marital harmony will generate in their enemies. David Lupher Classics Dept. Univ. of Puget Sound .