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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Words from Roman and Greek Mythology #1995 01/03/02 09:11 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Is it not mildly erroneous to call something that happened in historical time "mythological"? Not necessarily. The knot had mythical significance. Whether Alex's alleged cutting of the knot occurred is of no import. The Knot itself was mythological in its significance if not in its existence. The mere fact that Æschylus wrote a play about it does not stop the story of ?dipus from being a myth. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Words from Roman and Greek Mythology #1996 01/03/02 09:23 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The Gordian Knot has been in existence for only a comparatively short time, if I remember correctly, otherwise there would have been no King for a very long time. It was a tradition, I would say. Something mythical is so old that its existence cannot be documented. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Words from Roman and Greek Mythology #1997 01/04/02 12:50 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I guess you can define mythical however you want. To me it means something that reverberates on a deeper level than we can talk about rationally. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Gordia(o?)n Knot #1998 01/04/02 02:18 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel enthusiast Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Uncle Bill, I came across a news article you might be interested in: http://www.msnbc.com/news/681100.asp?pne=11947 The Gordian Knot is mentioned in the second section, although it's spelled Gordion in this article. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Greek Glossary of Names #1999 01/05/02 01:31 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 A very good, very large glossary of names from Greek mythology Well worth browsing through.When you first get into the site, you have to click on a line. I forget now what it says, but it is self-explanatory. http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/Dict/ASP/OpenDictionary.asp Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Words from Roman and Greek Mythology #2000 05/01/02 08:12 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus A alexis member alexis member A Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus And a note on old Alex - one of my history lecturers steadfastly refused to accord him history's sobriquet, instead calling him Alexander of Macedon. I'm not sure whether he (the lecturer) was egalitarian or didn't think he was all that Great. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Venus #2001 08/13/02 06:55 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 "Even the name of their goddess of love,Venus, had originally meant a garden of herbs; a well cultivated piece of land is 'fine Ceres and love and Bacchus together' " From The Ancient Mediterranean, by Michael Grant Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re:Hercules #2002 08/15/02 07:30 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 "About an infant's neck, hang Peonie. It cures Alcydes' cruell maladie." Josuah Sylvester, 1591,De Bartus. It took a good bit of searching to find that Alcides is an alternate name for Hercules, who was said to have been epileptic. In the process I found a new mythology site: http://www.sneaker.net.au/docs/encyclo/D1A.HTM#ALCIDES Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re:Hercules #2003 08/16/02 11:53 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... There's no relationship, is there, Bill, between peonies and epilepsy? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re:Hercules #2004 08/17/02 12:40 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Wordwind: You have my permission to conduct a controlled scientific research project into merits of a peony blossom around the neck of as many infants as you can enroll in the project. Of course you may have some problem getting large enough year-round supply of the blossoms. Figure five years to get the protocols approved. How many colors do you think ought to be tested? And should blossoms be on chest or on back? For how many years should the blossoms be kept in place? Should paper imitations be used as a control? How would you manage to have double-blind study? Maybe alex williams, doc_comfort, and wofahulicodoc will have some helfpful suggestions. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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