Talk:Thanatos

Nothingbutmeat (talk) 15:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

From the article: "This postulated death drive allegedly compels humans to engage in risky and self-destructive acts that could lead to their own death. Behaviors such as thrill seeking, aggression, and risk taking are viewed as actions which stem from this Thanatos instinct." From another source: (http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html): "The day-to-day evidence of the death instinct and its nirvana principle is in our desire for peace, for escape from stimulation, our attraction to alcohol and narcotics, our penchant for escapist activity, such as losing ourselves in books or movies, our craving for rest and sleep." Walking and talking again, eh?. 71.201.215.196 (talk) 15:59, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

More about Thanatos in pop culture. The Dutch black metal band should be included.
The band's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/thanatos666
Reference page on Metalunderground.com: http://www.metalunderground.com/bands/details.cfm?bandid=112 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stormkorp (talk • contribs) 18:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanatos "Moirai" link is incorrect

On the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos page the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirai link should be replaced with the correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirae; Moirae is not spelled with an i. Moirai does not take you to the fates.

Sincerely:

67.72.98.106 (talk) 20:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The Greek plural of moira is moirai — the -ae ending is a Latinized form. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

ancient Greek Thanatos

If anyone's interested in addressing the problems indicated by the tag, here's a possible source. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

another popular culture reference that is missing is to the science fiction novel - On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony - the novel is one of a series - The Incarnations of Immortality - in which the author creates a story around different gods that play a role in Greek mythology.

Ecologist (talk) 03:39, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Another culture reference - The Venture Bros Season 4 Episode 14 "Assisted Suicide". Eros and Thanatos appear in "the Rusty"'s mind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schiefaw (talk • contribs) 17:39, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding this line in the article "Thanatos was regarded[by whom?] as merciless and indiscriminate, hated by—and hateful towards—mortals and the deathless gods." reconsider in the light of views such as this stated in The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology "On the whole, later poets describe Death as a sad or terrific being (Horat. Carm. i. 4. 13, Sat. ii. 1. 58), but the best artists of the Greeks, avoiding any thing that might be displeasing, abandoned the ideas suggested to them by the poets. and represented Death under a more pleasing aspect." Tomandzeke (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:10, 20 February 2012 (UTC).

Request to add a line to Popular Culture

Not sure if this counts, but:

"Thanatos is the name of Gallente carrier-class ship in the video game EVE Online."

Or something to that effect.

Barrien (talk) 00:39, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barrien (talk • contribs) 20:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)