Subject: (whorl) Talus(os)

From: Alice Turner <al at interport.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:35:20 +0000

> At 10:10 PM 2/16/99, Robert Patterson wrote:
>
> > But doesn't Mr. Wolfe explicitly mention guard robots under the Talos
> > entry in "Onomastics?"  A role Dr. Talos actually plays in Chapter
> > XXXV of _Sword_ -- there's one small connection for you.
> >
>         Okay. Perhaps Wolfe & Edmund Spencer read some of the same books!
>
>

Well, yeah, I bet they did. Maybe Apollonius Rhodus, Apollodorus or Plato, all of whom tell the story.
Or, in Wolfe's case, Graves, who cites them.

Whee, I can post again!

-alga

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