From pycyn@aol.com Sun Nov 11 15:08:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 11 Nov 2001 23:08:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 65281 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 23:08:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Nov 2001 23:08:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r07.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.103) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 23:08:06 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.9.1e4561dd (4188) for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:08:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <9.1e4561dd.29205ed1@aol.com> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:08:01 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_9.1e4561dd.29205ed1_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_9.1e4561dd.29205ed1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/11/2001 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time, cowan@ccil.org writes: > The trouble is that Homer is simply he who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad, > and the Odyssey and the Iliad are the works of Homer. We have > no independent notion of Homer, as we do of most authors. > And "he" was probably corporate in the case of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and largely feminine in the latter case. --part1_9.1e4561dd.29205ed1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/11/2001 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time, cowan@ccil.org writes:

The trouble is that Homer is simply he who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad,
and the Odyssey and the Iliad are the works of Homer. We have
no independent notion of Homer, as we do of most authors.

And "he" was probably corporate in the case of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and largely feminine in the latter case. --part1_9.1e4561dd.29205ed1_boundary--