[Allen Tice]

Thanks for the background on Jim Harrison. My post # 12 was the product of working with academic articles on Greco-Roman classics, a few of which will try to persuade the reader that a dead sparrow was actually an impotent phallus (Catullus), or further and worse. The data are sparse enough that I soon expect to read that someone can solidly prove that Julius Caesar never existed, or that Aristotle taught that the world was entirely fat.