Folks,
How’s the reading of “The Persians” going?
Phil
P.S. We went to the Harvard Club in New York last night to hear a Professor lecture on Ovid, the Roman poet. It was GREAT. Can’t wait until we read Ovid (the professor agreed to come onto the phone and speak to us).
<p>Walter – I asked Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Chair of Greek Culture at Cambridge.</p><p>Here’s what he said:</p><p>"Absolutely no trace – we know he died in Sicily in 456 BCE, at a place called Gela – allegedly because an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald pate, thinking it was a good rock to crack open the tortoise’s shell on!</p><p>This link references the story – or myth:</p><p><a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cS6JV4Z27DoC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=gela+sicily+actors+pilgrimage&source=bl&ots=f2vwSd4jF5&sig=rCJXZpvpVEXGk5u_pZpdW4Paarw&hl=en&ei=gJHFTOHXLNHPjAe6ptS5BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cS6JV4Z27DoC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=gela+sicily+actors+pilgrimage&source=bl&ots=f2vwSd4jF5&sig=rCJXZpvpVEXGk5u_pZpdW4Paarw&hl=en&ei=gJHFTOHXLNHPjAe6ptS5BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></p><p><br>Thanks, Phil </p>