4.0688 Rs: Shipwreck Topos (2/19)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 3 Nov 90 11:30:45 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0688. Saturday, 3 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: 1 November 1990, 22:37:06 EST (11 lines)
From: Peg Kershenbaum T/L-863-7320 KERSH@YKTVMH
Subject: 4.0674 RS: Shipwreck Topos
(2) Date: 31 Oct 90 23:54:12 EST (8 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0674 Rs: Shipwreck Topos
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Date: 1 November 1990, 22:37:06 EST
From: Peg Kershenbaum T/L-863-7320 KERSH at YKTVMH
Subject: 4.0674 RS: Shipwreck Topos
Since everyone has already mentioned Lucretius, I shall pass over his
name in silence. The argument that Dryden translated the lines in
question makes sense. But how about the Horatian propempticon giving
Vergil a send-off on a ship he doesn't REALLY trust with its precious
cargo (half his soul)? There were a few of these propemptica, it seems.
Statius did one for his patron in which he mimics the Horatian poem.
(oy the things one must study for comps in Classics!)
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Date: 31 Oct 90 23:54:12 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0674 Rs: Shipwreck Topos (2/36)
The best variant on the Lucretius is Mark Twain's, somewhere in
*Innocents Abroad*, words to the effect that `There's no pleasure in the
world quite like that of watching other people being seasick when you're
not.'