From dtompkin@thunder.ocis.temple.edu Fri Mar 19 10:31:50 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA46148 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:31:49 -0800 Received: from thunder.ocis.temple.edu (root@thunder.ocis.temple.edu [155.247.166.100]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA08686 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:31:49 -0800 Received: from [155.247.76.89] (tompkins.conwell.temple.edu [155.247.76.89]) by thunder.ocis.temple.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA32536 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903191831.NAA32536@thunder.ocis.temple.edu> Subject: another weekend activity: Great Grand Illusions Date: Fri, 19 Mar 99 13:37:17 -0400 x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Dan Tompkins To: "Classics" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" A few weeks ago we ran a game that might be called micromania (a word used in the English translation of Henri Pomaine's classic, *Cooking in 10 Minutes*, which begins, 'I am a micromaniac, a man with a passion for exiguity') on massive claims about antiquity that rested on meager bases. That worked nicely enough to make me suggest another. Here it is: Great Grand Illusions. Claims about antiquity generated by or resting on claims that are not mere exiguous but out and out wrong. This does not mean what my wife and daughter might call Tompkins-like mistakes, i.e. embarrassing parapraxes, but big misunderstandings. E.g. Karl Reinhardt writing a brilliant essay on the presocratics that rested on a reversed chronology for Parmenides and Heraclitus (do I recall this right?). Any suggestions? Dan Tompkins .