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Re: VMs: Nymphology

Hi Erni,

At 04:46 06/06/2005 -0400, Erni wrote: 
I've been looking for additional information about something Robert
Brumbaugh said in reguard to the nymphs. In one of his various articles
about the manuscript, he identified the nymphs as "souls" and said they
were all depicted as female because according to Plato's teachings, all
souls were female. He gives no source to base this comment on and I have
been unable to find anything in Plato where he would have gotton this.
Does anyone on the list have any idea where he may have gotton this?

Personally, I don't think Plato did (AFAIR his idea of "soul" was sexless, much like Jamiroquai), but as Brumbaugh was first and foremost a Plato scholar, he almost certainly would have been able to point to the precise passage in the Greek where you might just be able to infer this, if you read it really, really carefully. Academics are like that. :-)

Anyway, a few of our nymphs are actually male - which rather blows a hole in that argument. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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