10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
11:55 a.m.
From: Rich Alderson
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:40 AM
The earliest Buddhist texts are written in a Middle
Indic[2] language
Oh, crap.
There was only going to be 1 footnote anyway, which I forgot to include:
[1] "Middle Indic" is a designation for the Indo-Aryan[2] languages of the
period roughly between 500 BCE and 800 CE, descended from Old Indic
languages contemporaneous with Vedic, Epic Sanskrit, and Classical
Sanskrit. The Modern Indic languages are descended from various of
the Middle Indic languages.
[2] This is a linguistic classification, prior to the racialist adoption
of the word "Aryan" to mean something entirely different.
I decided in composing the 1st note that the 2nd was needed.
Rich Alderson
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Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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11 Oct
11 Oct
5:07 p.m.
New subject: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a special help..]]
[1] "Middle Indic" [...] the Indo-Aryan[2]
languages of [...]
I am perpetually amazed by the variety of knowledge exhibited by people
here. This is but one example, one example I find fascinating both in
its presence here and in the knowledge itself.
[2] This is a linguistic classification, prior to the
racialist
adoption of the word "Aryan" to mean something entirely
different.
I'm reminded indirectly of the remark, based on the extent to which the
peoples of what's now called the Middle East were mixed some three to
four thousand years ago, that one man's Mede is another man's Persian.
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5:19 p.m.
New subject: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a special help..]]
On 2012-10-11, at 8:07 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I was surprised myself. I'm taking classics, so this semester I'm tackling Latin.
Did Ancient Greek last year. One thing about it, the classes are great! One class I'm
taking right now is ancient magic. Today's lecture was on techniques for evoking
ghosts, previous lecture was on types of ancient ghosts.
I'm someone who grew up on Indiana Jones, and greatly enjoyed The Mummy. So to read
ancient spells and that sort of thing is a real thrill. IMO, classics majors get to have
the most fun. Last fall I even had the chance to participate in a dig at Point Pelee. I
spent the day sifting dirt from a sight that was a thousand years old, and finding lots of
potsherds.
--------
Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
[1]
"Middle Indic" [...] the Indo-Aryan[2] languages of [...]
I am perpetually amazed by the variety of knowledge exhibited by people
here. This is but one example, one example I find fascinating both in
its presence here and in the knowledge itself.
5:26 p.m.
New subject: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a special help..]]
An entire class on ancient magic? I presume its going over multiple languages and beliefs
then right? (Egyptian book of the dead, etc)
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Subject: Re: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a
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On 2012-10-11, at 8:07 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I was surprised myself. I'm taking classics, so this semester I'm tackling Latin.
Did Ancient Greek last year. One thing about it, the classes are great! One class I'm
taking right now is ancient magic. Today's lecture was on techniques for evoking
ghosts, previous lecture was on types of ancient ghosts.
I'm someone who grew up on Indiana Jones, and greatly enjoyed The Mummy. So to read
ancient spells and that sort of thing is a real thrill. IMO, classics majors get to have
the most fun. Last fall I even had the chance to participate in a dig at Point Pelee. I
spent the day sifting dirt from a sight that was a thousand years old, and finding lots of
potsherds.
--------
Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
[1]
"Middle Indic" [...] the Indo-Aryan[2] languages of [...]
I am perpetually amazed by the variety of knowledge exhibited by people
here. This is but one example, one example I find fascinating both in
its presence here and in the knowledge itself.
6:07 p.m.
New subject: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a special help..]]
It's chiefly focused on Roman and Greek. This is because that is where most of our
sources come from. We have been discussing the influence of Egyptian and Persian
tradition, and how the greeks adopted much of it and began to systematize and secularise
it. I'm not sure if we're going to go deeper into the Egyptian end of things or
not, but there's a lot to cover just in Greece and Rome.
--------
Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
On 2012-10-11, at 8:26 PM, barythrin at gmail.com wrote:
An entire class on ancient magic? I presume its going
over multiple languages and beliefs then right? (Egyptian book of the dead, etc)
-----Original Message-----
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<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Ancient history [Re: Missing footnotes [was RE: Our Museum Need a
special help..]]
On 2012-10-11, at 8:07 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I was surprised myself. I'm taking classics, so this semester I'm tackling Latin.
Did Ancient Greek last year. One thing about it, the classes are great! One class I'm
taking right now is ancient magic. Today's lecture was on techniques for evoking
ghosts, previous lecture was on types of ancient ghosts.
I'm someone who grew up on Indiana Jones, and greatly enjoyed The Mummy. So to read
ancient spells and that sort of thing is a real thrill. IMO, classics majors get to have
the most fun. Last fall I even had the chance to participate in a dig at Point Pelee. I
spent the day sifting dirt from a sight that was a thousand years old, and finding lots of
potsherds.
--------
Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
[1]
"Middle Indic" [...] the Indo-Aryan[2] languages of [...]
I am perpetually amazed by the variety of knowledge exhibited by people
here. This is but one example, one example I find fascinating both in
its presence here and in the knowledge itself.
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