In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Knauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Is it likely that there was >a common Greek and Roman sentiment toward the barbarian tribes that classed >them as what a civilized person might become if overcome by extreme >passions like love and hate?
Certainly: Greeks (and Romans when they can no longer be called barbarians) are distinguished, in their own eyes at least, by the ability to givern themselves by reason. A Gaul or Thracian, say, may have more brute courage than a Greek or Roman, because he will charge into battle where a civilized person would have thought better of it; but if the charge doesn't carry all before it he is disheartened and gives up where a Greek or a Roman would have stuck to it. That is to say, he cannot rationally judge which dangers are to be risked and which avoided, which hardships are to be endured and which refused. -- Leofranc Holford-Strevens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
