Talk:Lamia

message: Could we perhaps use a different image for the Lamia (at the top). While it is a nice and famous painting, it does not display any accurate info about the Lamia (its just a woman. almost looks like he could be depicting an average nymph.) Perhaps we could find a more suitable image. Canutethegreat (talk) 21:13, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Different Image?

message: Can someone either rewrite the material about "Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles" and "Flyff" coherently, with some context, or remove it? As it is, it is probably not comprehensible to one reader in twenty. (e.g. "she will continue to heal her husband just before he is KO'd, and debuff the player(s) with her Slow spells.") - Jmabel | Talk 01:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehesible trivia 

message: Perhaps this page should be located simply at Lamia, since it's likely the most common meaning. — Feezo (Talk) 19:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: I'm taking this whole thing out because it's an unsourced mess that seems completely made up.  Feel free to find sources for it. Proserpine 08:08, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have returned it, well buttressed now with sources from even the most persistent temptation to delete, I imagine. I have deleted a thoughtless call for citations in a couple of places where the sources were already mentioned.--Wetman (talk) 06:31, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern folk traditions

message: Citation has been requested for the statement In Renaissance emblems, Lamia has the body of a serpent and breasts and head of a woman, like the image of hypocrisy. I'm trying to recall an article published c. 1970 (Burlington Magazine?) on an allegorical representation of fraus (hypocrisy, fraud) described as I've mentioned, in a French C16 painting as I recall; the article discussed its iconography. I can't find it searching JSTOR. Can anyone help? --Wetman (talk) 22:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: C16 emblem of hypocrisy

message: There is a move discussion in progress which affects this page. Please participate at Talk:Lamia - Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 04:20, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: :Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός; laimos), referring to her habit of devouring children.
:Aristophanes, The Wasps, 1177.
I don't know Ancient Greek, but I checked Loeb version of 'The Wasps' with the parallel greek text, ~1177 line is 'πρωτον μεν ως η Λαμι αλουσ επερδετο' about 'how Lamia spluttered when they caught her' (in another, more rude, translation 'Lamia, seeing herself caught, let fly a fart'), the Greek text doesn't have any λαιμός word nearby, only the name of the monster, nothing about gullets either.
May be it was some scholiast on Aristophanes, anyway it needs clarification IMO.217.118.64.61 (talk) 14:19, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  a questionable link to aristophanes 

message: This article conflates two apparently different Lamia, the daughter of Poseidon, who was the mother by Zeus of the Libyan Sibyl, and a child stealing monster (see Pierre Grimal, Dictionary of Classical Mythology, pp. 248–449; also Smith Lamia 1. Lamia 2.).
:I've now removed the content from this article referring to the daughter of Poseidon, who was the mother by Zeus of the Libyan Sibyl, and moved it to a new article Lamia (daughter of Poseidon). Paul August ☎ 13:02, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs to be split

message: Seemingly spurrious claim that Lamia sang to attract children. Two books  state this.</br>
Both source (and even quote out of) Plutarch Curisosities 2, but mention of singing is absent.
Just tabling it for now. I haven't included in the article.--Kiyoweap (talk) 05:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singing to attract children 

message: Since Apuleis applies "lamiae" to other beings at another place (Book 5), it has been suggested the word is "not a formal classification" but a "pejorative expression", by Stannish & Doran (2013), p. 117. Resnick & Kitchell (2007)  partly concedes, and says lamiae just means 'those bitches' in the second instance.
When  added "The Elizabethan translator William Adlington rendered lamiae as "hags", obscuring the reference for generations of readers." the latter part is POV.
Accordingly I removed the underlined portion because it was not a properly sourced POV statment. The citation was sloppy (no author or page number given) and I could not confirm it due to non-availability of preview. So it may be just WP:OR for all I can tell.--Kiyoweap (talk) 15:58, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lamiae as insult word 

message: Should definitely be added to the entry 8.9.87.250 (talk) 02:14, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard