From lwright@cac.washington.edu Mon Mar 6 07:55:01 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA45340 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:54:59 -0800 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA31004 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:54:59 -0800 Received: from shiva2.cac.washington.edu (shiva2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.100.202]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA28880; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:54:52 -0800 Received: from localhost (lwright@localhost) by shiva2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA14328; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:54:52 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:54:51 -0800 (PST) From: Linda Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu cc: jsc2t@ascsa.edu.gr Subject: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:18:14 +0200 From: Jenny Strauss Clay Subject: Can anyone give me the source of this "old inscription" cited by Edith Hamilton in her book, The Ever-Present Past: An old Greek inscription states that the aim of mankind should be "to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world." Any leads? Thanks, JSC Jenny Strauss Clay American School of Classical Studies in Athens 54 Suidias Street 106-76 Athens Greece Phone: 30-1-722-7290 (h) 30-1-723-6313 Fax: 30-1-725-0584 Address e-mail to jsc2t@ascsa.edu.gr AND COPY to jsc2t@yahoo.com .