----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:52 PM
Subject: RE: looking for image of hermaphrodite human as told by
Aristophanes in Plato's Sympoisum
Hi
Janice,
Great advice, thanks.
Rick
You asked for the URL
to my lecture page. Go to
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/michod/intro_bio_182.htm
There you can refer to
the ?My 182 lectures? web presentation and slides 49 and 50 introduce Plato?s
theory and Hedwig.
I played the video in
class and they loved it. It is an intro biology class.
If you go to the
following link
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/michod/books.htm
click on my ?Eros and
Evolution? book and there you will find selections from the book (click on
selections) and scroll down to ?Plato?s theory of repair? and you will find the
connection between Aristophanes story and our theory of the evolution of
sex.
You will find a lot of
other stuff relating to the evolution of sex at my web site.
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/michod
Again thanks for the
information!
Rick
From: Janice
Siegel [mailto:jfsiege@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:38
AM
To: Rick Michod
Cc: dr j
Subject: Re: looking for image of
hermaphrodite human as told by Aristophanes in Plato's
Sympoisum
Get a copy of the DVD version of the
2000 (?) film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" - you will find an animated rock video
for a song called "The Origin of Love" which sort of tells the story as
Aristophanes does in the Symposium (there are some differences, such as when
Zeus refers to the time that he cut the legs off the whale), but you will find
what you are looking for. I am sure you can get a screen shot from it, and you
can credit the animator, who happens to be the wife of the nephew (?) of my
associate dean...
I know this sounds like weird
advice, but trust me. If you can give me a URL to link back to, after you put
your presentation together, I'd be grateful. Always good to show students (and
colleagues) how knowledge of the ancient world informs and enriches our
own.
Janice Siegel
Assistant Professor
of Classics
Illinois State University
Dept of Foreign Languages
Mail
Code 4300
Normal, Illinois 61790
309-438-3583
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday,
March 20, 2004 9:07 AM
Subject: looking
for image of hermaphrodite human as told by Aristophanes in Plato's
Sympoisum
Dr. J.
I came across your web site. I?m a
biologist who studies the evolution of sex as a form of genetic repair by
which the whole (DNA molecule) is recreated by recombination. In my
presentations I use Aristophanes story as a kind of overview and I?ve been
looking for an image, maybe a painting, of the primordial hermaphroditic state
of humans as told by Aristophanes. Do you know of such an image or
painting?
Thank you in
advance
Rick
Michod
