Talus(os)
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Feb 1999
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Alice Turner — 20 Feb 1999, 14:35

> 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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