From Apollonios@aol.com Mon Aug 5 13:51:55 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g75KpqeY011080 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:51:53 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Aug 05 13:51:51 2002 -0700 Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g75Kppbq008871 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:51:51 -0700 Received: from Apollonios@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v33.5.) id d.169.11a4045f (18709) for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Apollonios@aol.com Message-ID: <169.11a4045f.2a803f57@aol.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:51:35 EDT Subject: Archaic oaths To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_169.11a4045f.2a803f57_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10571 --part1_169.11a4045f.2a803f57_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My friend who is writing the novel on Helen now asks me to find her some good, round, plausibly Mycenaean oaths, which I suppose will actually have to be Archaic. I'm afraid I didn't follow the "to the crows!" thread, which I assume started with some similar concern (but on this list, I wouldn't bet any money on it.) So can some of our more robust colleagues oblige with expressions of rage, contempt, and/or determination, some suitable for males and possibly some for females? Feel free to cloak your suggestions in the decent obscurity of a learned tongue. Thanks again, Heidi --part1_169.11a4045f.2a803f57_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My friend who is writing the novel on Helen now asks me to find her some good, round, plausibly Mycenaean oaths, which I suppose will actually have to be Archaic. I'm afraid I didn't follow the "to the crows!" thread, which I assume started with some similar concern (but on this list, I wouldn't bet any money on it.) So can some of our more robust colleagues oblige with expressions of rage, contempt, and/or determination, some suitable for males and possibly some for females? Feel free to cloak your suggestions in the decent obscurity of a learned tongue.

Thanks again,
Heidi --part1_169.11a4045f.2a803f57_boundary-- .