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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 74.124.162.10 (talk) at 11:46, 7 July 2021 (Possible Medusa Connection). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Requested move

I think a non-native English speaker started this page. There is no English, Greek, or Latin word "Ipotane". To have "Silenus" redirect to an article entitled "Ipotane" is misleading. I have retitled the article "Silenus" and removed all references to "Ipotanes". If the original poster would care to find the English word or its Greek original to which they meant to refer, then they should feel welcome to revise my edit. Charlie

What you did was create a duplicate of the article. I'm with you on changing it to Silenus, but since there is already a "Silenus" page, I believe we'd need an administrator to move Ipotane over and preserve it's edit history. -Ravenous 14:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Could a source be found? "Ipotane", perhaps just from John Mandeville's zany book of travel-marvels, isn't recognizable to me, doesn't appear at the ordinarily quite thorough http://www.theoi.com, or in my OED, and the only available article page history is User:Stemonitis' move of the page to Silenus. Who started all this? one wonders. --Wetman 03:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Medusa Connection

According to this post I came across from another individual across the net that there is a possibility at one point Medusa once had a Horse's head and may have some possible archaic connection to Pegasus (since it was a horse creature).

https://i.stack.imgur.com/EMiZs.png

I'm unsure of the book he got this page from however.

EDIT -

I've located the book "The Cults of the Greek States" by By Lewis Richard Farnell Lewis Richard Farnell FBA (1856–1934) was a classical scholar and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1920 to 1923.[1] 74.124.162.10 (talk) 11:40, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]