humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> Elizabeth wrote:
> >
> > The 'wound in the thigh' is a stock literary death,
> > it's in the bible,
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http://www.imt.net/~gedison/apostle.html

<is a Greek name meaning "Lover of horses"). In Hierapolis (Turkey)
Philip and Bartholomew saved the sick wife of the Roman Proconsul. As
a result she became a Christian which politically embarrassed her
husband. He sentenced both apostles to death by crucifixion. The
Proconsul is reported to have told Philip "denounce Jesus and save
your lives." Philip answered "accept Jesus and save your soul."
Somehow Bartholomew escaped but Philip was martyred, being "pierced
through the thigh and hung upside down until dead." He was 87 at the
time of his death.>>
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> Elizabeth wrote:
> >
> > in the Venus & Adonis, uh I think Alexander
> > died of it,
>
>nordicskiv2 wrote:
>
> "If you mean Alexander the Great, then it is well known that he died
> from an illness following an extended banquet and drinking bout. Of
> course there have been suggestions that he was poisoned. If you mean
> some other Alexander who died from a wound in the thigh, then I doubt
> that anyone has any idea whom or what you are gibbering about."

Elizabeth is probably thinking of Alex's pop: Philip (the Apostate?)
who was made lame by a wound in the thigh three years before he died.
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http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Fortuna_Alexandri*/1.html

Plutarch, Moralia
On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander

<battle with the Triballians, and Philip, although he escaped with his
life, was vexed with his lameness, Alexander said, "Be of good cheer,
father, and go on your way rejoicing, that at each step you may recall
your valour." Are not these the words of a truly philosophic spirit
which, because of its rapture for noble things, already revolts
against mere physical encumbrances? How, then, think you, did he glory
in his own wounds, remembering by each part of his body affected a
nation overcome, a victory won, the capture of cities, the surrender
of kings? He did not cover over nor hide his scars, but bore them with
him openly as symbolic representations, graven on his body, of virtue
and manly courage.>>
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Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he rip his pants and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
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The Battle for Macedonia
By Roger L. Lewis, Reply by Peter Green

In response to The Macedonian Connection* (January 22, 1981)

To the Editors:

<Connection" [NYR, January 22]. He ventures into ancient Greek history
and presumes to pronounce judgment on some intricate and controversial
issues. He does not, however, appear to be in command of the necessary
professional knowledge. In fact, he has not even seen the books he is
discussing. If the reviewer had seen R.L. Fox's book, he could not
help but notice the official stamp of the "Search for Alexander"
exhibition and would not have written that the Greek authorities
"refused to give the book their official imprimatur, and washed their
hands of the author" (whatever that may mean). As for the reviewer's
lacunae in ancient Greek history, one could not enumerate them all. It
would certainly require a seperate [sic] essay to discuss them. Per
force [sic] I shall have to limit myself to a few striking examples.
(I cannot help but mention an otherwise minor error which nevertheless
suprises [sic] coming from a supposed specialist. Philip never
received "an arrow wound in the thigh," but an arrow wound in the
right eye and a sarissa wound in the thigh, which is quite
different.)>>
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Marcus Junianus Justinus
Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus.

<refused to allow him a passage, unless they received a share of the
spoil. Hence arose a dispute, and afterwards a battle, in which Philip
received so severe a wound through the thigh, that his horse was
killed by it; and while it was generally supposed that he was dead,
the booty was lost. Thus the Scythian spoil, as if attended with a
curse, had almost proved fatal to the Macedonians.>>
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Arthur Golding: The Uncle of Edward de Vere,
And the Intimate Part He Played in the Development
. of Shakespeare's Creative Genius (Part 1)
http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/barrell/02golding1.htm
Copyright 1940 by Charles Wisner Barrell
First published in The Shakespeare Fellowship News-Letter.
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<Queen's College, Cambridge nearly fours years before he took up his
official residence with the Master of the Royal Wards. Arthur Golding,
fourteen years his senior, accompanied the young Earl as personal
"receiver" of the Vere estates which were then apparently among the
greatest in the realm. That Golding also acted as tutor and general
adviser to his nephew can be taken for granted, for the translator
addresses Oxford in such a dual spirit in dedications
of books published in 1564 and 1571.
.
The first of these is an English version of Justin's previously
untranslated Abridgement of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius,
"a worke conteyning briefly great plenty of most delectable
Historyes, and notable examples, worthy not only to be Read,
but also to bee embraced and followed by al men."
.
Lord Oxford was only fourteen years of age and about to receive
a degree from St. John's College, Cambridge, when his uncle
offered the fruit of his labors in the field of ancient
history to him in these words:
.
"there was not any who, either of duty might more justly claim
the same, or for whose estate it seemed more requisite and necessary,
or of whom I thought it should be more favourably accepted, than of
your honour. For ... it is not unknown to others, and I have had
experience thereof myself, how earnest a desire your honour hath
naturally graffed in you to read, peruse, and communicate with others
as well the histories of ancient times, and things done long ago, as
also of the present estate of things in our days, and that not without
a certain pregnancy of wit and ripeness of understanding. The which
do not only rejoice the hearts of all such as bear faithful affection
to the honourable house of your ancestors, but also stir up great
hope and expectation of such wisdom and experience in you
in times to come, as is meet and beseeming for so noble a race."
.
Then, after urging young Oxford to emulate the examples of
Epaminondas of Thebes and Arymba of Epirus who were not only great
soldiers but scholars and peace-makers as well, he concludes:
.
"Let these and other examples encourage your tender years ...
to proceed in learning and virtue . . . whereof, as your great
forwardness giveth assured hope and expectation, so I most heartily
beseech Almighty God to further, augment, establish and confirm
the same in your Lordship with the abundance of his grace.
.
Your Lordship's humble servant, Arthur Golding"
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Walter wrote:
>
> It could be added that it is a bit of a euphemistic
> stretch to say Adonis got it in the thigh!!

Please do your euphemistic stretching in private.

Art Neuendorffer