From dgw1@nyu.edu Fri Apr 4 07:28:38 2003 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.133]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h34FScZv050878 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:28:38 -0800 Received: from mx2.nyu.edu (MX2.NYU.EDU [128.122.108.103]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h34FSYE2017763 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:28:35 -0800 Received: from homemail.nyu.edu (H2.HOME.NYU.EDU [128.122.108.42]) by mx2.nyu.edu (Switch-2.2.6/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id h34FSWR25588 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:28:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from [24.105.139.243] by mail.nyu.edu (mshttpd); Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:28:32 -0500 From: Diana Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <14c4a5b14c87fe.14c87fe14c4a5b@homemail.nyu.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:28:32 -0500 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: Blogging the Classics X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Byzantines couldn't write history or anything else without using huge doses of Authority. Preferably turgid. It demonstrated Erudition. I don't feel up to reading Anna today, but she certainly quoted & paraphrased with the best [or worst] of them. DW > > (Classically-named blogs --) Not byzantine in content, except > for a > >nice quote >from the Alexiad in the banner: > > > > http://www.porphyrogenitus.net/ "The stream of Time, > >irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all > things that > >come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds > of no > >account and deeds which are mighty and worthy of commemoration. . > >.Nevertheless, the science of History is a great bulwark against the > >stream of Time; in a way it checks this irresistible flood, it > holds in > >a tight grasp whatever it can seize floating on the surface > and will > >not allow it to slip away into the depths of Oblivion. " > >- Anna Comnena (1083-1153), The Alexiad > > > > Greg Kindall Seattle Washington > > 1) Was I the only one who was reminded at the beginning of the > opening of > Ajax' "Trugrede" in Sophocles? > 2) Am I the only one wondering whether this is in fact authentic? > > James L. P. Butrica > Department of Classics > The Memorial University of Newfoundland > St. John's NL A1C 5S7 > (709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home) > > > .