From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 21 15:35:30 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id PAA84424 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:35:29 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA20419 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:35:27 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-72.look.ca [216.154.52.200]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08045 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010121183257.02188c30@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:35:50 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Homer's death by a riddle In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20010121151419.009eb5c0@online.emich.edu> References: <3A6ACB53.58F6250@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Translation online at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Hesiod/homrhes.html The Homeric riddle thing is at the end ... And proving the need for 'Golden Threads', this *was* mentioned on the Classics list way back in 1993; accessible now at ... better version to come: http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu:8080/hyper-lists/classics-l/listserve_archives/log93/9311a/9311a.154.html dm At 03:18 PM 21/01/2001 -0500, you wrote: >At 03:06 PM 1/21/01 -0400, you wrote: >>At 12:43 PM +0100 1/21/01, E. Philip Hewitt Schwartz wrote: >>>Oliver Taplin in the opening chapter of Literature in the Greek & Roman >>>Worlds: A New Perspective alludes (p.53) to a myth about Homer's dying >>>on the island of Ios, a death connected to his not being able to answer >>>a riddle set him by some boys. Could some member of the list supply a >>>reference for this story? >> >>This is the conclusion to the _Peri Ome:rou kai E:siodou kai tou Genous >>kai Agwnos Autwn_ (_On Homer and Hesiod, their Origin and Contest_). It's >>a very late work with a bunch of earlier models. (It's dated to the reign >>of Hadrian, by H.G. Evelyn-White, editor of the Loeb _Hesiod and Homeric >>Hymns_, where it can most easily be found, along with a heap of other >>interesting stuff like the _Battle of Frogs and Mice_, etc.) >> >>JMP > > >Just by the way: as JMP says, this is a very valuable Loeb for all the >not-so-easily-found stuff it brings together. I heard a couple years ago >now that Martin West was working on a new edition; anyone heard if that is >imminent? > >-- Jim Holoka .