in the original.
Incidentally, someone commented on my e-mail name - oracle. I don't
actually claim to be an oracle (if only!) it just happens to be an
anagram of my name, Carole. I don't like to put my proper name on my
e-mail address because it attracts unsolicited e-mail, especially being
For the benefit of novices in ancient medieval studies, I would add
only
that the medieval Christian church had no need to feel threatened by
Greco-Roman paganism, which was no longer a serious rival to Christian
belief;
Hmmm...thats not how I understood it. So if the early Church did not
A recent and very
good prose translation is by David West (Penguin, once again).
Yes I liked the West translation, its very straightforward and
accesible, but frankly there are some mis-translations in it that are
unbelievable. Especially of individual words where the word chosen seems
to
