Dear Phil,
If I had received your much better and clearer explanations in time, I
would have restrained from posting my own musings about incestuous rabbits
and X's and Z's. It seems that your dissertation is something that could
help me to bring some clarity into my own thoughts about number comp
Otfried Lieberknecht and Phil Thibodeau are much better versed in this
area than I, but let me hazard a layman's explanation not of the golden
ratio or the Fibonacci sequence themselves, but on the supposed meaning
of these phenomena in Vergil and elsewhere. I see three main
possibilities:
1. Verg
The actual subject I am covering is how Plato's criticism of a certain kind of
art
and it's relationship to knowledge poses a threat for society. Then I must
compare
that aesthetic to Virgil's images of art (verbal and visual)and the use of
them. My
Virgil text is the Aeneid. Every bit of inp
The end of Aen.VIII
Talia per clipeum Volcani dona parentis
miratur, rerumque ignarus imagine gaudet
attollens umero famamque et fata nepotum.
'Such, throughout the shield, were the gifts of Aeneas' parent. He
wondered at them and, though he could not know the reality, was moved by
the image to g
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:36:37 +
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As usual Otfrid's e-mails are always worth reading - and saving.
Helen Conrad-O'Briain
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