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December 27, 2020
The White Goddess, and Apollo's Golden Mean
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:47:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: ......@westerncanon.com
Subject: Lecture Hall Message 18
Dated : April 25, 1999 at 13:47:09
Subject: Re: The White Goddess
>I am a junior at Malone College in Canton, OH and I am taking
>Modern British Writers. For our final project, the professor has
>asked us to analyze a poet and his works. My friend and I are going
>to do a type of interview situation, where he is Graves and I am
>the interviewer. We want to focus specifically on "The White Goddess"
>...
December 25, 2020
Most Accessed Articles and Chapters in December 2020
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December 23, 2020
The Wider Scope of Ancient Mathematics (letter to an American Scholar)
Dear.....,
Hi. I became aware of your short book [.......................] relatively recently. I wish I’d known it earlier.
I have a strong interest in the idea and function of the concept of limit in antiquity. My main object of study at UCL was ancient Assyria (mostly the text corpus). Like the Greeks, they had a strong interest in the idea of limit, which is illustrated on the walls of their buildings, and is also represented in their images of the sacred tree. Limit also serves an im...
At Reality's Edge
[Some notes I made while I was writing up The Mathematical Origins of the Megalithic Yard in early 2020. The notes conclude with some observations of the importance of the idea of limit in Mesopotamia, and its connection with the Assyrian Sacred Tree, and their notion of kingship. I could have finished up with a short discussion of Egyptian interest in the idea of limit, particularly since we know (from the Rhind Papyrus) that they used the same method of calculation of Euler's number as in an...
December 9, 2020
Revolt in Athens in the late Seventh Century BCE (A letter to SemprePhi)
At 19:12 29/11/2020, Thomas Yaeger wrote:
[.......]
Hi. I didn't mean to do any work on the DoP [Death of Pan] today, but it was a quiet Sunday, and I decided in the morning to explore expanding the content headings into sections. This is a much more abstract discussion than in the earlier books, but that is how imagined it would be. So I need a lot of references to existing articles and chapters, enabling readers to have access to real detail. The article 'An Appetite for Knowledge' will be...
December 8, 2020
Mathematics and Calculation in Antiquity (letter to a Cambridge Scholar)
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:56:04 +0000
To: .............cam.ac.uk
From: thomas yaeger
Subject: Mathematics and Calculation in Antiquity
Dear........,
Im supplying here the address of an article which may be of interest to you, since a) you are interested in early examples of sophisticated human cognition, and also b) in examples of ideas, languages and cultures being transmitted east to west in deep antiquity. This article addresses both of these areas.
The article took seven years...
November 24, 2020
The Prisoners in the Cave
@SemprePhi drew my attention to the following book review on the 23rd November:
Phillip Sidney Horky, Plato and Pythagoreanism 2013. Reviewed by Simon Trépanier bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-05-1…#brynmawr#philosophy
I responded in four short posts, which I’ve now augmented with further discussion.
@SemprePhi Hi. Thanks for the pointer to Horky's book and the review. Where to start! You cannot rely on Aristotle for accurate information about the Pythagoreans. Huffman has been occupying academic ...
November 23, 2020
'The Shout' and Other Stories
>From: mobydick@westerncanon.com
>Subject: Lecture Hall Message 22
>From: marie …….:
>Dated : June 20, 1999 at 17:21:12
>Subject: the Shout and Other Stories
>I am in fourth year at university in France and I am preparing
>a study on Robert Graves and the importance of fantasy,
>unreality in reality, and the flavour of 'supernatural' in his
>English short stories. It would be great to have some comments
>about that and about any link it could have with his poe...
November 22, 2020
Seven Days in New Crete
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:00:15 +0000
Subject: Re: "Seven days in New Crete"
>I am an Italian university student. I am specializing in English
>literature at the University of Pescara, Italy and, for my thesis, I am
>preparing a study on Robert Graves' fiction... I have found this archive and I have
>thought to call for help. In a chapter of my thesis I have to tell about a Graves'
>novel, called "Seven days in New Crete", but in my country I was not able to
>find any news about it. It would be great ...
November 20, 2020
The Nazarene Gospel Restored
A response to an email inquiry about Robert Graves book 'The Nazarene Gospel Restored'. It dates from November 1999, and has been missing from the web for several years. The book has been reissued by Carcanet (2010), and edited by John Presley, though it is not currently available from them. However the reissue means that it is a little easier to find than it was. Its page is at: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857546675. There is a review of this edition by Peter Costel...
