Bacchus and the Dolphins

[amolegere]

KoA parallel of the day! These always make me happy. I just realized the hilarious similarity between the story of Bacchus (Dionysus)  and the dolphins (as seen in Book 3 of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses') and the story line of the King of Attolia. First of all, Bacchus enters dressed in "embroidered robes of gold and purple" and "half-dazed with wine and

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[agh_4]

Holy goat, that's just crawling with parallels!

Thank you, that was really fun to read. I definitely agree with you about the dolphins.

ps. Do you know how Archimedes is supposed to have died? This is from the book I'm reading now: "If you asked me which historical figure had the grandest death, I'd skip over martyrs and lovers and warriors, and settle on Archimedes, who was so engrossed in making diagrams in the sand one day that he rebuked a Roman soldier who came up to him. Don't disturb my diagrams, were the last words he ever spoke, so legend has it." (and wikipedia says basically the same thing.)

[amolegere]

Or he choked on an olive ;)

I have been betrayed by my textbooks, none of them mention Archimedes! So I was forced to do the google. It looks like most of the sources say the same thing, yep. This site lists the ancient sources on his death, if you're interested http://math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Death/Histories.html

[agh_4]

Not THAT Archimedes! :)

Maybe if he'd had olives on his nose the soldier would have recognized him.

[jurekale]

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[amolegere]

Thanks for reading!

[agh_4]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[amolegere]

Thanks! And a happy belated birthday to you too! I hope you had lots of cake!

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