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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:12:31 -0500
From: "Jeremy Downes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In the States, at least, many classical names were imposed on
enslaved Africans (as with Caesar in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko). To great
extent, this helps explain the occasio
Jess Paehlke schrieb:
> Dr. Conrad,
>
> I'd be very interested to hear more about what Vergil of Salzburg said re:
> the antipodes and Boniface's concerns. Could you recommend any references
> about this?
see:
http://www.fortunecity.de/lindenpark/schwitters/149/globushinweise.html
(Dr. Krüger i
Dr. Conrad,
I'd be very interested to hear more about what Vergil of Salzburg said re:
the antipodes and Boniface's concerns. Could you recommend any references
about this?
Thanks in advance,
Jess Paehlke
M.A. candidate
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
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It just occurred to me--there was that eminent medievalist (American)
named Charles Homer Haskins. Somehow "Homer" as a middle name in between
"Charles" and "Haskins" doesn't sound quite so bad. "Homer Haskins" _tout
court_ would have a hillbilly ring to it. I still wish I knew why,
though.
Rand
I can´t comment on any English usage, but here in Spain Virgilio (obviously,
Vergil) has been consistently used as a Christian name, with no implications
whatsoever. Homer has never, to my knowledge, been used. Now the situation in
South America is very different... you have the *lot *of Roman/Gree
> What's the British attitude? Doesn't anyone there give the name
>Homer or Virgil to their son? After all, one meets Englishmen named
>Terence, etc.
To someone like me brought up in the UK, Homer and Virgil used as forenames
sound distinctly American -- I didn't know they had a hillbilly ri
I knew a cat called Virgil once, but I don't suppose that counts.
Caroline Butler
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I knew a cat called Virgil once, but I don't suppose that counts.
Caroline Butler
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Yes, I have to acknowledge that those hillbilly associations do exist, in
the U.S. context; the same for the name Homer, unfortunately. But I don't
know how that came about, and I wish I knew. Homer and Virgil are my two
favorite poets, but if I had wanted to name my son in honor of one or both
o
Backing up a bit, the correspondent from Australia was mistaken when he said
that the first instance of Virgil as a first name in the US occurred with the
composer Virgil Thompson. Not true. The name has been used in the US for
generations and, Virgil Thompson notwithstanding, (dare I say it here
And let us not forget Vergil of Salzburg whose discussions of the antipodes
made poor Boniface so nervous.
Helen Conard-O'Briain
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