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"broadcast"

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Anyone have an idea where the phrase "sowing broadcast" the dragon's teeth comes from? I've traced it to Dickens (Tale of Two Cities, III.4, "Calm in Storm"; 1859); Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter (1850) and also his Golden Fleece book in 1888. Interested in particular because of the reference also in Nixon in China (opera). -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 03:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if this helps, but broadcasting is a type of sowing - throwing the seeds widely while progressing over a field. It is from this that that broadcasting in the radio sense is derived. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 08:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Cultural References

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I question whether the Dragon's Teeth (fortification) and Dragon's Teeth (mass effect weapon) are cultural references to the mythological use of Dragon's Teeth. Personally, I think they refer more to the idea of a dragon's teeth (e.g. the fortification looks like teeth), and not to the Dragon's Teeth that grow warriors. Others' thoughts would be appreciated. MordredTheWise (talk) 16:20, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's a video game by the title of 'Invictus' or some such, in which Cadmus is a hero unit, and can summon warriors by means of dragon's teeth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.252.133 (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

additional possible cultural references, if they can be confirmed

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During the war in Vietnam, the US military made use of cluster bombs to create instant minefields using the BLU-43 "Dragontooth" antipersonnel mine.

Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "Litany for Dictatorships" contains this passage:

"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons' teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.156.96 (talk) 05:23, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spartoi

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What is the difference between this article and the spartoi? Should both be merged?--ReyHahn (talk) 11:09, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

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I propose merging Spartoi into Dragon's teeth (mythology). I think the content in Spartoi is near-identical to that of Dragon's teeth (mythology), and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in here. I am choosing Dragon's teeth as the destination page due to its much-simpler-to-find name. Also Spartoi is specifically related to the myth of Cadmus and thus less general.ReyHahn (talk) 10:17, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As there has been no opposition to this I have gone ahead and merged Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]