From mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu Sun Jan 28 05:26:43 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id FAA152028 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:26:42 -0800 Received: from MAPLE.lemoyne.edu (maple.lemoyne.edu [192.231.122.100]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA07097 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 05:26:41 -0800 Received: from maple.lemoyne.edu by maple.lemoyne.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #33655) id <01JZFN4495TC005K3S@maple.lemoyne.edu> for CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:26:47 EDT Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:26:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John McMahon Subject: month, year To: CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Scripsit DL: > Also, I've started to wonder if books that attempt to cover > the events of an entire year might be just a tad too ambitious. > Can't we get the list down to "month books"? At the risk of > violating my "classics only" rule, I'd propose Barbara Tuchman's > "Guns of August" Or novelistically, Solzhenitsyn's *August 1914* ... Yearwise more precise -- and it also includes a classical reference -- but perhaps *Sextilis MCMXIV* would bring it into the fold, in (pre-Eisenstein *October*) caps in this case, of course. John McMahon Le Moyne College .