Talk:Metis (mythology)

message: Please check it. Metis's husband is not Zeus is Cronus and Zeus is Metis' son.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.98.204.49 (talk) 05:08, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: She was a Titan, actually.  Or rather, the daughter of two Titans (and thus technically a Titanness, or at least that's the case in my understanding).  And the original goddess of Wisdom.  See Hesiod's Theogony. -Elizabennet 04:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the first poster here is right.  Even though the parents, Oceanus and Tethys, were both Titans, that does not make Metis a Titan.  As a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, Metis is technically an Oceanid, according to online sources (Oceanids) as well as my textbook, Classical Myth by Powell.    --Nanodeath 18:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that.  I've been informed that while she wasn't one of THE Titans, the Oceanids were Titans, technically.  Sorry about that.  --Nanodeath 20:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I've modified the opening para. to make the "Titan" reference less cut-and-dried, per objections above. (The telling question is, which is primary, Titans or the twelveness of them?) The "fly" was introduced from the start, by User:Aranel, who hasn't been editing since 2005. Bibliotheke says only that Metis "turned into many shapes in order to avoid his embraces." The fly may be a "logical" interrpolation as easier to swallow than a horse: see "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly..." --Wetman 21:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Peaceray (talk) 20:39, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments I

message: What happened to her afterwards? So Zeus swallowed her, and she stil gave birth to Athena, who came out of her daddy's forehead. OK. But did Metis ever get out? --SidiLemine 11:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She never escaped her husband, but instead offered him advice that only he could hear (since she was inside of him).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.81.181.107 (talk) 20:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metis after she was swallowed 

message: 1. Mètis and Metis: I believe it's necessary to have a unified spelling or have the two versions of the name at the top.
2. "Metis was the one who gave Zeus a potion for Cronus to vomit out all his siblings." At least one more version exists and Gaia gives a potion to Zeus.
3. "Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown, armed, and armored, and Zeus was none the worse for the experience." I am not sure the second part of this sentence makes sense.
ICE77 (talk) 22:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments II 

message: :2.15.13 -- Removed obvious off-topic source material dealing with a "re-imagining" of Metis rather than historical source material for the Greek goddess.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.72.172 (talk) 08:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Off-topic source material 

message: The genealogy needs to explain why some names are crossed out.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.221.104 (talk) 03:13, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names crossed out 

message: Metis is referred to as a Titaness and a Oceanid but often as a Titaness rather than her sisters like Perse, Asia/Clymene, Pleione or Doris that are typically called Oceanids. I agree that Metis is part of the second generation of Titans (she was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys). However, is there a reason why articles label Asia/Clymene or Doris primarily as Oceanids?
ICE77 (talk) 20:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titaness and Oceanid 

message: The grammar across the article is inconsistent, amendment suggested. 2001:569:BEF9:7000:1EC:A4A3:B637:FDC4 (talk) 08:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If you see something that you think is wrong, feel free to fix it. Please be more careful than you were when you made this title though. -- Fyrael (talk) 13:17, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammer