Re: With apologies, may I add to my previous

Thanks!  I did some looking around, and found interesting articles that
mention these topics by Julia Hejduk and Jim O'Hara: but they turn out to
mention them only in pursuit of other things, without making the oak  /
lightning connection explicit.  I'll look further.

Dan

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 8:02 PM Martha Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Owen. There's certainly a lot in Nagy's work that I will be able to
> use, but I'm still remembering a free-standing article. If it doesn't
> spring to consciousness for me and no one else can identify it, I'll still
> have plenty of sources for the course I'm teaching, which is primarily
> about the mythic origins of plant life.
> There is no end of plants to consider, and Ovid is good for several
> sessions, not to mention Native American stories, such as the origin of the
> trailing arbutus, corn, tobacco, and so on.
> Maybe another ten week course later....
> Martha
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 6:51 PM Owen Cramer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if you're remembering the chapter on Thunder and the Birth of
> > Humankind in Nagy's Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990)
> >
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchs.harvard.edu%2FCHS%2Farticle%2Fdisplay%2F1288.chapter-7-thunder-and-the-birth-of-humankind-pp-181%2520201&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C7abfc563598e48142e9008d684bf842d%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636842355424176265&amp;sdata=18ZPtvjFx6V70i%2FHOun0liGB53gfNF2TwqagWyXofwg%3D&amp;reserved=0
> .
> >
> > Nice chapter!
> > Owen Cramer
> >
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> > Subject: With apologies, may I add to my previous
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> > request to the list for help with oaks and lightning that my faulty
> memory
> > just suggested to me that the article I am looking for is linked to the
> > image of the hero in Vergil's Aeneid. Perhaps someone will now be able to
> > assist.
> > Thanks again,
> > Martha D.
> >
>