From bcuthill@us.net Thu Jul 13 16:42:15 2000 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+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA30910 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:42:14 -0700 Received: from laurel.us.net (laurel.us.net [198.240.72.4]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA13727 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:42:13 -0700 Received: from [198.240.90.22] (host46.pmi1.laurel.us.net [198.240.90.46]) by laurel.us.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA88318 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:42:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Provider: US Net - Where Business Connects! (tm) - 301-361-USNET US Net Web Site: http://www.us.net/ or via Email: info@us.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bcuthill@mail.us.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:36:29 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Sally Winchester Subject: Re: Poseidon's Pants Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Greetings, Many thanks thanks for this thought-provoking article. A musing about it or rather about the sentiments behind clothing the statue. As nude statues etc. were common throughout the Classical world, the question that springs to mind is did the ancients consider that such things were likely to offend, corrupt, or damage children? Best, Sally Winchester .