Re: "Da Vinci" Debunking

What the Fundamentalists etc really need to be worried about is Philip
Pullman's *His Dark Materials* trilogy. I've not read the books because of
the exorbitant Euro prices here (that will have to wait until a visit to
Canada next year) but I did listen to a marvelous dramatisation on BBC Radio
4 last year, with Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel, who is leading a war against
God. There has been a West-end play already that got so-so reviews and
apparently a movie is in the works. And it's a children's book!

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Spinti" <JSpinti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Da Vinci" Debunking


> Don't forget Mary Renault!
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Spinti
> Marketing Director, Book Sales Division
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> indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum et quid Dominus quaerat a te
> utique facere iudicium et diligere misericordiam et
> sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bradley Skene [mailto:malkhos@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:37 PM
> To: CLASSICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Da Vinci" Debunking
>
>
> How is this substanitally differnt from the view of antiquity presented by
> Robert Graves, Maria Gimbutas, Carl Jung, or Joseph Campbell?
>
> What it seems to that all of this stems from is a misundertanding of the
> Romatic fantasy of a bucolic golden age (in Keats, Goethe, etc. which
served
> as an ideological basis for the criticism of the enlightenment) confused
> with fact.
>
> Bradley Skeen
>
> <snip>
>
>