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. Greenberg

Executive Editor
Warner B. Sizemore

Senior Editors
Dwardu Cardona, David Griffard, Peter J. James,
C. J. Ransom, Lynn E. Rose, Raymond C. Vaughan,
Roger W. Wescott

Associate 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 Wolfe

Contributing Editor
Thomas McCreery


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