[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

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> An interesting review.  The book that led me to look into this was
> Thomas Cahill's "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea", a book in his excellent
> "Hinges of History" series.  A helpful report is at
> http://www.indepthinfo.com/articles/wine-dark-sea.shtml .  His
> attribution of the English rendering to Andrew Lang in turn led me to
> http://pages.towson.edu/colson/default_files/wine.htm.

Thanks for those two links. Very interesting.

> Epithets may indeed be important to the development of epics, but those
> epithets are sterile when the cultural allusions are lost.

Half (all?) the fun is reading up about them and learning what the
context was and is now.

Carcharoth