Dear Jalil, This is very interesting. I am currently writting a book about Mithra and in it there is a chapter about Anahita, could I inlcude your story? its a...
Dear Nabarz, You are most welcomed. Please use and quote it as you like it. There is, however, a point I should draw your attention to. I wrote that the...
Dear Jalil, Many thanks for the quote. I wonder is Khezr same as Khidar? in which case i recall vaguely there is a story if one washes (pours water) on ones...
Dear Nabarz, That's him. "Khezr" is the way we pronounce his name in Persian. He is called as "Khezr-e Nabi" the latter word meaning prophet. He is immortal...
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MARGO TYTUS VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the Margo Tytus...
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Oct 23, 2003 10:02 pm
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I will be out of the office until Tuesday, October 28th, and will reply to your message when I return. Thank you for your patience. Darice Birge Senior...
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Call for Papers for Volume 8 (2004) ANISTORITON Journal (in English). ANISTORITON was founded in 1997 and is a peer-reviewed Internet and CD-ROM Journal of...
Hello, I've sent this message out to the WMST-L but have had very few responses so I thought I would try a few more lists...apologies therefore if you have...
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Nov 10, 2003 5:57 pm
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Have you read Elaine Pagels, *The Origin of Satan* on the evolution Genesis 3? Are you looking back to Marduk's killing of his mother?...
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Ross Scaife
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Nov 11, 2003 12:52 pm
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Would you define childhood? It is a vague 20th/21st western concept. Don Bloom <don-bloom@...> ... From: Ross Scaife To: Anahita-l@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Don Bloom
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Nov 11, 2003 1:51 pm
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I can't speak to the concept of ancient childhood but the concept of childhood is not as modern as popular wisdom often has it--definitely not confined to the...
Veronica Schanoes
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Nov 11, 2003 3:00 pm
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Mark Petrini has an excellent and thoughtful book on the literary side of this subject that might be a good starting point for late republican Rome: *The...
Fogel, Jerise
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Nov 11, 2003 4:21 pm
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF F&C IV WEBSITE The web site for the Feminism & Classics IV Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 27-30, 2004, is now up and running at...
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Nov 11, 2003 7:16 pm
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Unfortunately, the trite saying, "it's a man's world," is apropos. It has nothing to do with lenses, theories, perspectives. Human males, with very few...
... If by "critiqued" you mean "debunked," then I'd like to echo Sari's remarks: unfortunately, misogyny is a sad fact of life in most places where "gender"...
Fogel, Jerise
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Nov 12, 2003 2:22 am
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You say " (childhood) was a big deal in the 19th century" but to whom and how many people?These young people often saw themselves as wage earners in and for...
Don Bloom
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Nov 12, 2003 8:48 am
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I think similar questions could be asked about the variations of how childhood is perceived/experienced in this century as well. I don't dispute that children...
Veronica Schanoes
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Nov 12, 2003 3:06 pm
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If you want to read songs of the period before institutionalize misogyny you could do worse than to read the early stories of Inanna, or Enheduanna's hymn....
Sheila Michaels
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Nov 12, 2003 7:09 pm
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Children ARE wage-earners. We live in an area in which it has not been the rule for the last half of a century, though it still exists. In much of the rest...
Sheila Michaels
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Nov 13, 2003 10:41 am
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Working children are not necessarily wage earners. Many work within the family with the family unit being the income gathering group on which the family...
Don Bloom
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Nov 17, 2003 10:40 am
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Department of Classics SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the Summer...
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Hi everybody, I`m triying to find material for a work about the figure of Helen of Troy. The idea is to see how is she depicted in vases, and analise some...
hi I was wondering if anyone knew of any Roman cults/religions who used to ritualy bury the remains of their feast (bones, plates, pots, jars) etc... next to ...
Materials of potential interest to Anahitans in this new publication: "Colloquia familiaria: a selection" is a digital archive consisting of several colloquia...
Ross Scaife
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Dec 18, 2003 6:40 pm
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Hello, I'm new here too, it's nice to meet you all!...
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has any thought about vampires being a demonization of earlier traditions. Some of the imagery is sort of familiar to...
I have often wondered if vampire tales are at all related to images of Judaism. The shrinking from the cross, the blood libel, the predatory sexuality might...
