How are a play about the theft of Apollo's cattle, a newly discovered ancient poem about old age and the Gospel of Thomas connected to a mythological fish that ate part of a god?

lanfranco

Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, gmack, the place of discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, the relevant play by Sophocles (a fragmentary satyr-play called "The Trackers"), and the poem by Sappho. It is supposedly named after a fish that ate the, um, masculine member of Osiris. Quite a rich site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus Aug 14 05, 9:57 PM

gmackematix

Yay Frankie! They had some peculiar myths did the Ancient Egyptians. The site is also rich for lost works of Menander who was considered, at least by himself, as the greatest comic dramatist of his generation. Aug 15 05, 3:56 PM

lanfranco

Well, the Romans, including Terence, just loved the guy. He must have had something going for him. :) Aug 15 05, 4:14 PM

gmackematix

Oh yes, the one Julius Caesar called the demi-Menander. I suppose there was no acconting for popular taste back then either. Aug 15 05, 9:23 PM

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