City on Green

David Stockhoff · 02 Jan 2011, 14:40 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:40:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) City on Green
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I googled "Urbis" and "Pestis" to see what loose associations might come 
up. There were none of any great interest: pestis (plague) is the 
species name of the Black Death, and Urbis tends to bring up Rome, but 
you would expect that. Rome is the Eternal City, which Nessus resembles 
in its lifespan, and of course both cities are notorious for other 
reasons. Thinking of Nessus as a Nexus in the sense that postimperial 
Rome was a nexus might be productive.

For those of you who like puzzles, however, I present the Stanford 
Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project,

      DIGITAL MAP OF THE SLABS OF THE FORMA URBIS ROMAE:

http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURslabmap.html

On 1/2/2011 3:01 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
> Someone recently mentioned The Town That Forgot Fauna. I think there is much there which
> reflects on the founding of Nessus. It is on a river. It has grand walls and towers. There
> are black beans mentioned. We never learn the "grand name" of this city but its nicknames
> "Urbis" and "Pestis" are highly evocative of the name "Nessus" to me.
>
>

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