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Women and archaeology at Women in Red

Hello fellow editors, Just a quick note to say that Archaeology is one of October's themes at Women in Red and you're cordially invited to join us! Lajmmoore (talk) 18:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:15, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Stoicism

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Parentage at Comus

Since 2004 Dionysos has been credited as the father of Comus in the article on him. Comus is a late Classical creation anyway and there does not appear to be a scholarly source for the claim. However, Milton claims him as the son of Bacchus in his masque (line 54 ff) and it is possible that he knew of one. Can anyone throw light on the genealogy before the claim is removed from the article? Sweetpool50 (talk) 10:00, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For context, see the discussion between myself and User:Sweetpool50 at Talk:Comus#Son of Dionysus. – Michael Aurel (talk) 10:35, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) The body of the article says that Milton invented his descent from Bacchus. DGRBM does not mention it; nor does the Realencyclopedie seem to (with the caveat that I don't read German, so I'm relying on machine translation here). Brill's New Pauly omits him except for a brief mention in the article on komos that it was "the name of a satyr"; Oxford Classical Dictionary doesn't have anything at all (there's an article on the komos, but no mention of a related satyr or god). Searching google scholar, everything I can find about Comus as the child of Dionysus is in the context of Milton's masque, so I think it's reasonable to assume that this is indeed the source, but I haven't been able to dig up anything which explicitly says so. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(And now having read the talkpage discussion which Michael Aurel links to, I agree with him that the current lead implies that Comus was considered the son of Dionysus in antiquity, and shouldn't unless we have a source for that.) Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:50, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On looking again at the Comus article, I note at the end of the References section that the (original) text is ascribed to Theoi. But the parentage claim is not backed by the quotation from Philostratos there. Sweetpool50 (talk) 11:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Judging by their attribution of the parentage to "Other references", I suspect that Theoi derived the claim from Milton, whose genealogy they do note near the end of the page (describing it as a "post-classical invention"). – Michael Aurel (talk) 11:29, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]