From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 24 03:07:13 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA47230 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 03:07:11 -0700 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id DAA14589 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 03:07:11 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-21.look.ca [216.154.52.149]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA44244 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 06:05:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20000923195818.01e27400@postoffice.idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@postoffice.idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:03:40 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Theocritus as Parodist? (and introduction) In-Reply-To: <39CA2593.7649DC9C@umail.umd.edu> References: <90.9e9cacb.26fb5adf@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At Thursday 9/21/00 09:13 AM, you wrote: >Perhaps I shouldn't presume to speak for the entire List, but my >impression of >our overall character is that we're really not at all a "snobby" group; While my opinion doesn't probably count for much, I would say that this *is* a bit of a snobby group, even if such snobbery might be unintentional. I am currently catching up on email and I find it absolutely consistent with the 'list psyche' of late that an 'outsider' or 'lurker' might ask a question -- an interesting one at that -- and near as I can tell, no one has answered it. Granted, not everyone (including myself) is well-versed (tee hee) enough in Theocritus to engage the question, but surely *someone* can give it a shot such that a conversation might develop??? I've been going through the archives of this and other lists putting together 'golden threads' for reference purposes and this is a pattern which occurs somewhat frequently, unfortunately. I can't help but wonder, e.g., if one of our more regular professorial posters had posted the same question whether the discussion would still be going ... regards, dm .