From nauplion@charm.net Mon Mar 6 19:40:33 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 TAA46872 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:40:32 -0800 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id TAA06307 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:40:31 -0800 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-018.charm.net [209.143.116.18]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10855 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:40:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C479DB.A431FED7@charm.net> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 22:39:14 -0500 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "classics@u.washington.edu" Subject: The Song of Achilles Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." And Robert Graves knew precisely the answer to those questions whether we wanted them answered or not. Perhaps inadvertently combining those two questions, the class last week, unsatisfied with the statement that he was singing about heroes, or mens' fame, asked what song Achilles was singing when the guests arrived in Book 9. Diana Wright -- It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that he tolerates their existence. Samuel Butler .