05-20-2007, 09:24 PM
Since some members have asked, some information about Pollux may be in order.
Ioulios Polydeukes (Julius Pollux in Latin) was an Alexandrian greek who lived in the middle of the second centuryA.D. He taught at Athens,and of his many books on rhetoric and other subjects, only the Onomastikon ('book of definitions') survives.
The Onomastikon was a dictionary/thesaurus, in ten books, defining technical terms of all sorts, arranged by subject and often illustrated by quotes. It is regarded as a "book of the greatest value," because it provides an absolute cornucopia of information on everything from mythology, to the masks used in greek tragedy, to the technical names of parts of ships and much,much more. The quotations also preserve fragments of many ancient authors, now lost ( a thousand curses on those fanatical early christians !! ).
Ioulios Polydeukes (Julius Pollux in Latin) was an Alexandrian greek who lived in the middle of the second centuryA.D. He taught at Athens,and of his many books on rhetoric and other subjects, only the Onomastikon ('book of definitions') survives.
The Onomastikon was a dictionary/thesaurus, in ten books, defining technical terms of all sorts, arranged by subject and often illustrated by quotes. It is regarded as a "book of the greatest value," because it provides an absolute cornucopia of information on everything from mythology, to the masks used in greek tragedy, to the technical names of parts of ships and much,much more. The quotations also preserve fragments of many ancient authors, now lost ( a thousand curses on those fanatical early christians !! ).
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
