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Lemnos. It sounded familiar. But like many I was thinking with my Legion cap not my mythology cap. Trust me I cannot think with both at the same time due to heavy continuity.
So doing my usual ancient people reading tonight at work when I am bored. This time the Etruscans. The island Lemnos is mentioned? Say what?
It's where Hephaestus & Philoctetes both hung out. Guys with bad legs? Also something about Cybele?Strange.
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The only connection I can think of is the people of Lemnos were from the Bronze Age (warlike) and the following age is the Heroic Age? ohwell.
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The odyssey recounts a story of where Hephaestus pretends to go to Lemnos after setting up a trap to catch Ares sleeping with his wife Aphrodite.
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According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the phrase LEMNIAN DEEDS refers to especially evil crimes. Two bloody massacres apparently took place on Lemnos. In the first, the women (who were not Lesbians or even lesbians, btw) killed the men for bringing concubines to the island. Later, they killed all the concubines and the illegitmate children, too.
So, it sounds like our slaughter-minded Lemnos is aptly named, though it might have been more historically resonant if he'd been a woman.
From: Reimagined Trom | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Tromium: So, it sounds like our slaughter-minded Lemnos is aptly named, though it might have been more historically resonant if he'd been a woman.
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