His Dark Materials (was Re: "Da Vinci" Debunking

I have read them and they are among my very favorite books.  I can't for the
life of me connect them directly to anything classical, but I did want to
second your opinion.

It is interesting what does and does not spark the ire of the
fundamentalists.  Pullman is worlds beyond Rowling in terms of traditional
blasphemy or heresy or whatever they're calling it these days, but you don't
hear much about him.  I suppose he did sell quite enough books to warrant a
response.

-Yvonne R.

Nigel Kennell wrote:

> 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>
> To: <CLASSICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>> Eisenbrauns, Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
>> jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com
>> Phone: 574-269-2011 ext 226
>> Fax 574-269-6788
>>
>> 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>
>>
>>