Talk:Nepenthe

message: Nepenthe is also a gift shop on the Big Sur coast of California.
*That Nepenthe also has a cafe and restaurant.  --Wikismile 16:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

message: The References section is getting to be a bit long and unwieldy. Can we prune it down to only the references where the word is important in context and easily cited (like the last line of Lovecraft's story or the one in law) but remove extraneous ones like the titles of albums or its mention in lyrics?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.139.219.254 (talk) 14:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I've heard "nepenthe" used metaphorically to describe coffee, but I've seen very few citations that seriously suggest it as an alternate to the Opium hypothesis. Any references? Haikupoet 00:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Coffee? You sure about that?

message: Needs to be turned into a disambiguation page. feydey 15:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Attention

message: I came across the Nepenthe page because I found the word in some incubus lyrics. Perhaps they knew how to use the word? Analyzing the lyrics makes some sort of sence in the "wanting to wash away an experience with forgetfulness".
The song is Calgone, link to lyrics is [link to copyvio website removed] check it out, it's used in the middle of the song and I believe they're using the word properly since a bunch of bad stuff happens in the song.Keitaro 22:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nepenthe in lyrics 

message: References for all non-original information needs to be cited and substantiated.
63.224.250.129 (talk) 20:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Needed 

message: In almost all translations the name of the drug Helen mixes into the wine in the Odyssey is named heartsease. I checked for the word Nepenthe inside all major English versions and could only find one that had Nepenthe. How come the translators confuse Nepenthe with heartsease? I find this very strange and it's been getting on my nerves ever since I first saw the mistake in Richard Buxton's Complete World of Greek Mythology (yes, even Buxton chooses a translation that calls the drug heartsease and not Nepenthe). The only one who gets it right is Alfred J. Church. Can anyone help out with this one?  --Ashrawi (talk) 19:12, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heartsease 

message: Whoever is responsible for posting the Greek-only excerpt of Homer: if this were a Greek-language encyclopedia, your failure to translate it into English would be quite understandable; but since it is an English-language encyclopedia, perhaps you would be so kind as to convert it into a language which the lesser mortals among us, who *don't* read Greek, can benefit from as well? Thanks! Chillowack (talk) 18:50, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no translation of the Greek? 

message: I can recall a pharmaceutical preparation, Nepenthe, used to calm crying infants, in use as late as the 1950's.  This was a dilute tincture of opium.
27.252.127.254 (talk) 11:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pharma 

message: There was some hallucinogen going around Portland in around '90 that was called nepenthe.  It was some plant extract.  It was about like hashish only 50 times more intense.  I'm wondering what it was because there only seems to be a mythological nepenthe known to the general public.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:DA8:D800:107:5D05:C3DE:62A4:C0DB (talk) 07:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something real called Nepenthe? 

message: The luxurous yacht owned by multi-millionaire late 19th and early 20th Century industrialist James Deering was called the "Nepenthe." Deering was associated with the International Harvester Corporation, but gained fame and immortality for building one of the grandest and most elegant houses in America: "Vizcaya" on Biscayne Bay in Miami, FL. The Nepenthe was Deering's legendary pleasure yacht which hosted parties for the very rich, Hollywood movie stars and leaders of American business and politics. 130.91.146.242 (talk) 21:29, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous yacht called "Nepenthe." 

message: Nipenthes is something that does not mourn and feels no sorrow.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.129.230.10 (talk) 21:06, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  English for greek: «Νηπενθές»