Talk:Silenus

message: This page used to redirect to "Ipotane", a word which does not exist in English, Latin or ancient Greek.  The article itself needs serious work; all I have done is to remove the confusing references to "Ipotanes". Charlie 06:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What you did was create a duplicate of the article. I'm with you on changing it to Silenus, but since there is already a "Silenus" page, I believe we'd need an administrator to move Ipotane over and preserve it's edit history. -Ravenous 14:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out, though I don't know how to go about doing what you've suggested.  Does the duplication of the article have ramifications in practice (for the user), or is it simply not in adherence to wikipedia guidelines?  I wonder who got "Ipotane" created in the first place...  Charlie 22:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I see you've taken care of it Ravenous, nice work.  Charlie 22:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I put a request on Wikipedia:Requested moves for them to move Ipotane here.  Could take them a week or so, not sure.  There are several ramifications in having duplicate pages... including problems with the edit history as I mentioned, links (which page to link to?), and the pages branching off into different content over time.  It's definately best if we keep it on one page if it's the same content. - Ravenous 04:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: It just seems to repeat itself many times over.. Perhaps we could remove unnecessary repetitions and hone it down a little bit to read better?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nasier Alcofribas (talk • contribs) 01:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Beginning paragraph

message: What about Stysippos? He should be noted here. --88.64.90.192 (talk) 22:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Stysippos

message: The first para reads in part "This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods..."  I thought "phallic" had to do with the phallus, i.e. the penis, or maybe a phallic cult, and my brief search at Wikipedia and on the web backs this up.  If this term is correctly used here, then I think some kind of explanation is necessary. Mcswell (talk) 14:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Phallic

message: That is from The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche. --TimSC (talk) 17:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation for "That the best thing for a man is not to be born"

message: ... are wrong (they are for class of Sylenes). Infovarius (talk) 12:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwikis... 

message: Although "Silenoi" is closer to the Greek Σειληνοί (though a more accurate transliteration would be "Seilenoi"), in practice the Sileni are always known as "Sileni" (see, for example, the OED and the Oxford Classical Dictionary). Opting for "Silenoi" would demand that Silenus was changed to "Silenos" since the Greek word is Σειληνός.
TonySever (talk) 22:03, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sileni, not Silenoi

message: In Dan Simmons' Hyperion, Martin Silenus is a major character, with a satyr -like appearance, who writes a prophetic Cantos, describing the events of the story.
The character is a direct reference to the ancient Silenus, and since Hyperion is a major work of sci-fi literature, I think it deserves a mention. 188.121.15.11 (talk) 05:37, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Simmons' Hyperion to the "in literature" section