KRONOS
A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Vol. VI, No. 1 Fall 1980
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning William Mullen 12 Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery (Concluded) Richard J. Jaarsma with Edward L. Odenwald 25 "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream Irving Wolfe 48 Shamir Immanuel Velikovsky SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 51 On Sothic Dating: Some Preliminary Remarks Lewis M. Greenberg 53 The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties Richard A. Parker 67 Weighing the Anchor Lynn E. Rose 69 Some Notes on Parker's "Sothic Dating" Shane H. Mage 71 Venus and Sirius Jan N. Sammer 74 Calendrical Changes and Sothic Chronology . . . Immanuel Velikovsky 75 The "So-Called" Fixed Sothic Date of Sesostris III, 1872 B. C. John Dayton 78 Anchors Aweigh Geoffrey Gammon and Peter J. James 86 Forum Cover iii Contributors
EDITORS
Editor-in-Chief
Lewis M. GreenbergExecutive Editor
Warner B. SizemoreSenior Editors
Dwardu Cardona, David Griffard, Peter J. James,
C. J. Ransom, Lynn E. Rose, Raymond C. Vaughan,
Roger W. WescottAssociate Editors
Robert W. Bass, C. Leroy Ellenberger, Richard F . Haines,
Frederic B. Jueneman, Sigmund J. Kardas, Jr., David Lorton,
Shane H. Mage, Earl R. Milton, A. Mann Paterson, Zvi Rix,
Jan N. Sammer, George R. Talbott, and Irving WolfeContributing Editor
Thomas McCreery
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