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[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

The point was that Ian was claiming that statues of Cicero and 
Augustus were evidence that they lived. Possibly, but I was quite 
agreeing with you that such evidence is very dubious.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[5]: historiography (Peter, again)
Author:  <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com> at Internet
Date:    02/01/2000 18:42


At 12:03 AM 01/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The point of the statues is that they are good evidence only if (like 
>the ones of Augustus you mention) they are in a datable context.

I hope you are not arguing that a statue implies that we are dealing with a 
real person. Homer talks about many gods whio haev satues,a nd then about 
some of their actions. I think we have to distinguish here.


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