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Re: Penelope Analyzed

vaeringjar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:06 GMT

... I hit the post button by accident and meant to add in reply yes, I think you can see things also from her perspective too. But here's a question - what

Re: Penelope Analyzed

vaeringjar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:38 GMT

... I think you get 4 anima figures in a Jungian interpretation of the Odyssey - Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa, and then finally Penelope. You can see the

Re: Penelope Analyzed

John Uebersax — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:47 GMT

Thanks Dennis. I had composed a post on Penelope but apparently didn't post it before, as I don't see it now. I'll try to reconstruct it: The following are

Penelope Analyzed

vaeringjar — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:53:35 GMT

Synchronicity strikes, as they say. John Finamore just sent this notice to ISNS members, but for others not members, here it is: The Feminine Personification

New Book on Aristotle Metaphysics Theta

vaeringjar — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:14 GMT

Notice of a new publication received from OUP today: Doing and Being An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta Jonathan Beere Oxford Aristotle

Re: Tarrant reviews Ancient Commentators book

vaeringjar — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:23:40 GMT

... Yes, definitely is. "I readily agree that I could not write a satisfying book with a title such as this. However, if I had to do so then the first thing

Tarrant reviews Ancient Commentators book

Robert Wallace — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:11:16 GMT

Hi everyone, Prof. Harold Tarrant has recently reviewed on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews a significant new book: Miira Tuominen, The Ancient Commentators on

Re: Penelope weaving

leslie greenhill — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:43 GMT

I raised the issue of Penelope, the number 108 and Pythagoreanism. I have just finished writing a new paper of about 10,000 words. I hope to complete

Re: Penelope weaving

Thomas Mether — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:53:20 GMT

I have the book. With a math partner who is also a Taoist priest, we are collaborating on a book that suggests some kind of intuitive knowledge of fractals is

Re: Penelope weaving

vaeringjar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:03:29 GMT

... That's very impressive, Tim, a good reading I think. This thread [sic!] has reminded me also of Catullus' great poem 64 and its ecphrasis on Ariadne

Re: Penelope weaving

Merrily Harpur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:12:54 GMT

On the subject of ancient measure and numerology, was anyone here at Thames and Hudson's launch of John Michell's book 'How the World is Made: The Story of

Re: Penelope weaving

leslie greenhill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:36:52 GMT

According to Robert Graves, Penelope might also mean "striped duck". Penelope holds on to what matters most to her. She buys time and she is cunning in

Re: Penelope weaving

Michael Chase — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:46:45 GMT

... On the symbolism of weaving, I'd like to recommend Robert Eisler's magnificent Weltenmantel und Himmelszelt (2 vols., Munich 1910), a work of stupendous

Re: Penelope weaving

Thomas Mether — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:05:45 GMT

John, i don't know where I read it but the name Penelope means something like "weaving", "woof", and "cunning" (nice match for her husband) if my memory is

Re: Penelope weaving

Tim Addey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:02:44 GMT

... This is an interesting interpretation. The idea of the psyche alternating between periods of unification and unraveling seems psychologically appropriate.