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From: Diana Wright <dgw1@nyu.edu>
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Changing the subject, though perhaps not the concept:  for an account 
of a modern Thermopylae, read Newsweek's account of what happened 9/11 
on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.  The writing is painfully 
sentimental but the story is magnificent.

DW







> Bruce Thornton writes:
> >Violating wax figures reminds me of Admetus's speech in Alcestis
> >(around 350ff, Lattimore trans.):
> 
> Another touching expression of a uxorious desire to hang onto a
> dead wife is to be found at the beginning of the fifth book of
> Xenophon of Ephesus' "Ephesian Tale," where our hero Habrocomes
> visits the hut of an elderly Syracusan fisherman, Aegialeus, who
> had his wife Thelxinoe mummified when she died and keeps her
> around to greet him when he comes home from a hard day's fishing.
> It's the nicest thing in that romance, surely.
> 
> David Lupher
> Classics Dept.
> Univ. of Puget Sound
> 
> 
> 

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