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Page 4 of 10 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 9 10 > Topic Options #14117 - 11/06/01 07:12 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Top #14118 - 11/06/01 07:57 PM Re: Sphinx wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear WW: The Greeks put masks on the actors to keep them from developing a star cult and fancy salaries. Top #14119 - 11/07/01 09:58 AM Re: Patricide Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667 What is more perplexing is how long it took Oedipus to figure out the fact that he had murdered his father. He knew he'd offed the king. He jus din't know it was his daddy. Course, since daddy had tried to off him, it was sort of time delayed self-defense. Top #14120 - 11/07/01 11:40 AM Re: Patricide wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 I onder,which bothered Oedipus the more, patricide or incest? Top #14121 - 11/07/01 04:01 PM Re: Patricide jimthedog enthusiast Registered: 02/24/01 Posts: 387 Loc: Hartsville, New York. I would be more bothered by the incest. He dedn't know it was his father, and dad wasn't alive to remind him all the time after he found out. Anyway incest is grosser. Top #14122 - 11/07/01 06:21 PM Re: . Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... . Top #14123 - 11/07/01 07:59 PM Re: Patricide wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear WW: one case in which a young man's having a middle-aged mistress was not a good idea. Top #14124 - 11/07/01 10:11 PM Re: Patricide consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean Mistress, Bill? I understood that he married her. Otherwise, what gain? Didn't he gain control of all that was his father's by marrying his mother? The tragedy is that it would have all been his anyway with only a little patience, which it seems his was a little askew? Top #14125 - 11/08/01 07:59 AM Re: Patricide Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667 Oed didn't know that he'd offed the king. I guess it all depends on whose version of the story you listen to (Rashomon anyone?); according to Graves it wasn't like that at all (but then what was?). The -ology site wasn't really an -ology site, just a semiconvenient way of listing a whole bunch all at once. You can do the same thing with *gry to find all the words that M-W recognizes that end in gry. If you're hungry enough and it doesn't make you too angry. Top #14126 - 11/08/01 08:30 AM Re: Patricide Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Faldage: My reference for Oed was Sophocles... And, yes, it wasn't an ology site per se, but it was a site to access ologies and no one had even gotten me that close. I wonder whether siteology is a fast-growing study? WW Top Page 4 of 10 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 9 10 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8454 Members 16 Forums 13691 Topics 210121 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zzflorian, zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad 8454 Registered Users Who's Online 1 registered (zzflorian), 40 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 93 endymion6 69 jenny jenny 68 wofahulicodoc 67 teepee 20 Rhubarb Commando 16 Faldage 14 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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