4.0942 Responses: Frye; Black Athena; Digitized Audio (3/56)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 25 Jan 91 00:13:49 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0942. Friday, 25 Jan 1991.
(1) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 20:22 EST (11 lines)
From: NMILLER@trincc
Subject: Northrop Frye
(2) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 09:47:41 EST (26 lines)
From: elli%ikaros@husc6.BITNET (Elli Mylonas)
Subject: multiculturalism
(3) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 11:51:12 PST (19 lines)
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Re: Digitized Audio
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 20:22 EST
From: NMILLER@trincc
Subject: Northrop Frye
To Germaine Warkentin's eloquent and moving tribute to Northrop
Frye there will surely be added many more from those who knew
him or at the very least understood and appreciated him early on.
My salute is from one come very late to the feast, having resisted
him for twenty years. He will indeed be missed.
Norman Miller
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 09:47:41 EST
From: elli%ikaros@husc6.BITNET (Elli Mylonas)
Subject: multiculturalism
I have not read Black Athena, nor was I able to attend the session at
last year's APA on the subject, but it seems to me that there are two
different views being conflated into one here.
The "Greece" that the 18th and 19th century created is one thing,
certainly a focal point of Eurocentrism, phallocentrism and all those
other centrisms.
On the other hand, the Greece of the Greeks, was a very different place,
not the same one the German and British scholars defined. They I should
saare very hard to understand, and that is actually a direction that
classical scholarship is taking these days. It is a multicultural
approach in itself.
I actually work with Rome, and after reading more of the recent work on
Roman religion, All I can say is, anyone who thinks that the Romans were
versions of ourselves with togas on is just wrong.
--Elli Mylonas (Perseus Project, Department of the Classics, Harvard
University) elli@ikaros.harvard.edu
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 11:51:12 PST
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Re: Digitized Audio
Regarding digitized audio, the amount of space depends on the sampling
rate. At a rate of 8kHz (a reasonable rate for spoken audio), 8K bytes
per second would be required. Various compression schemes can reduce
this by factors of 2, 4, or 8. Many other compression techniques could
provide comparable factors. By comparison, the sound on a CD-ROM is 16
bit sound (meaning two bytes per sample) samples over 30kHz. This means
that over 60K of storage is required per second.
Randall Smith
Classics Department
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805-893-3556
Email: 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet