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Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A tour of the ruins of the Roman seaport Ostia Antica, with Yale Archaeologist-Classicist Dr. Frank Brown...
...compile his Concordance to Euripides, Classicist James T. Allen spent 43 years arranging 250,000 index cards in a nightmare game of "philological solitaire." Had he used a computer, Allen could have done the job in twelve hours. So says Classicist James T. McDonough Jr., 27, of Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, who uses modern electronics to analyze Greek metrics. McDonough has done as much for Homer, and as a consequence of this odd work he can almost definitely answer an old scholarly question: Did one man or many men write the Iliad...
...same token, this kind of word never once appears at mid-point in a line. Such evidence of stylistic consistency goes far to disprove the 19th century theory that many men wrote the Iliad. Scholars can still debate whether or not the author was Homer, but Computer Classicist McDonough hopes to solve another old mystery: Did the man who wrote the Iliad also write the Odyssey...
...declaimed that "ita mater nostra imperitiam iuventutis dispulit atque ignoratiam" (Columbia "has driven away the inexperience of youth"), and once he slipped orotundly into Greek, extolling Columbia's pressure àperńs els áxpov ixéσoa.i ("to reach the summit of excellence"). Slender, pale Classicist Vaio, who finds that world affairs, science and business "do not amuse" him, graduated with a higher average than anyone since 1952, won a summa. He was born in Oakland, Calif., the son of immigrant Italian parents; his late father was a cook. Bored in high school with "incomprehensibly incompetent...
Amid the French furniture, Greek marbles and African carvings of London's Greek embassy, he and his statuesque blonde wife regularly entertain such philhellenic men of letters and personal friends as Lawrence Durrell, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann and Classicist Maurice Bowra...