From pericles@temple.edu Sun Jul 28 08:01:44 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g6SF1eeY008018 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:01:40 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jul 28 08:01:40 2002 -0700 Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g6SF1Tlq031699 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:01:40 -0700 Received: from temple.edu (pcp01784256pcs.audubn01.nj.comcast.net [68.46.176.188]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GZY00CGCSEG90@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:01:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:02:48 -0400 From: Dan Tompkins Subject: Re: Oliver Stone, Thucydidean To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: <3D440798.41527A21@temple.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: on similar lines, Marshal Sahlins, U of Chicago anthropologist, is apparently about to publish a book titled The Polynesian Wars, in which he applies some Thucydidean approaches to his area of study. More when I learn more... Dan Tompkins Steven K Ross wrote: > > Elizabeth Vandiver wrote: > > > > < > "As Thucydides said, I wanted to record that there was a time when > people did these things. I did not want this to be forgotten." > > I wonder how he justifies "JFK" ...>> > > And *I* wonder how he justifies mixing up Thucydides and Herodotus like > that! > > Steve Ross > LSU -- Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: http://courses.temple.edu/ih .