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Allegory[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I deleted the long list of unreferenced examples to the article on allegory because it has no place there. It is random, uncited, based on the personal opinion of editors and formed about half article. I had floated this move on the article talk page and nobody queried this decision. If you wish to take issue with the edit, please discuss it on the article talk page. Thank you Span (talk) 15:48, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contacting me. I think the deletion goes alright. I was also thinking about the sense of this list, and actually tried to make it a bit more systematic, but probably the subject is much too broad for that indeed. --Malcolm77 (talk) 15:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Members and editing opera articles[edit]

I don't see your name on the list of WP Opera members, but maybe you'd like to consider joining and help improve them based on established guidelines agreed to by consensus?

In that regard, you might like to refer to Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Article styles and formats. Viva-Verdi (talk) 22:48, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014[edit]

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Fair use rationale[edit]

Hi! I've noticed your recent edits on the Ingmar Bergman article. I find them useful, but I just want to point up one issue. You inserted into the article four images (movie posters) that are copyrighted ([1], [2]), but have no wp:fair use rationale for use in that article. Wikipedia's wp:Non-free content policy dictates that non-free media has to have a fair use rationale for every article. Since those images you've inserted do not have written fair use rationale for use in the Ingmar Bergman article, their inclusion in the article constitutes a copyrights violation, and I removed them ([3]).

Wikipedia's Non-free content policy states that copyrighted content may be used only in certain circumstances. One of the conditions that has to be met is the so-called contextual significance: non-free images may be included into the article only if their inclusion is absolutely necessary to understand the article. And, the movie posters are certainly not necessary to understand the article about the movie director. So, the problem is not the lack of the fair use rationale, but the lack of the fair use itself. Vanjagenije (talk) 09:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. I had no idea, and just thought that – the posters being free in some context – that would be so for all of the English Wikipedia. --Malcolm77 (talk) 13:02, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Italics[edit]

Hi Malcolm77, you're absolutely correct about the Greek italics, I have overlooked that part of your edits, I apologize for it. I will fix that to spare you the effort. As for the non-italic reconstructions, that's common style in historical linguistics. I'll remove the remaining italics with subsequent edits. –Austronesier (talk) 11:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's true I'm only dabbling in PIE linguistics, so thanks for the information. There are also some asterisks missing at some of the laryngeals. --Malcolm77 (talk) 11:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Odysseus[edit]

Thanks for improving the names section. I'm still not sure I understand it, though. It now reads "The form with -δ- (also Odyseus Ὀδυσεύς) is only attested in epic literature." But Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristotle, Polybius, Pausanias, et al. all use Ὀδυσσ- (for example, [4]). So what exactly is the form with -δ- that is only found in Epic? Thanks, --Macrakis (talk) 21:35, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you must be right. I didn't check this. So, that piece of information (about the forms with δ, see the quote below) comes from the Etymological Dictionary of Greek by R. S. P. Beekes. I understand it in that way, that the classical authors followed Homer's example, which seems also to be a plausible hypothesis. Only one thing strikes me as odd: he calls the forms with -λ- "by-forms" ... whereas they could also be the original or main form according to his argumentation.

"Epic also Ὀδυσεύς (metrical shortening? Cf. on Ἀχιλλεύς). Several by-forms with λ (cf. Schwyzer: 209 and 333, Heubeck 1961: 24ff.): Ὀλυσ(σ)εύς, Ὀλυτ(τ)εύς, Ὀλισεύς, etc. (vase-inscr.), Οὐλιξεύς (Hdn. Gr.), Lat. Ulixēs. The form with -δ- is only ascertained by epic literature."

According to Beekes, the association with the verb ὀδύσσομαι (odyssomai) is folk etymological and was also established by the epic poets. Beekes' resumé on the etymology is this:

"Connected by the epic poets (e.g. τ 407ff.) with ὀδύσσομαι, which is folk-etymological (Linde Glotta 13 (1924): 223, Risch 1947: 82f., Stanford Class. Phil. 47 (1952): 209ff.). Modern interpreters sought the origin of the name in the Greek West or on the continent on the one hand, and in Asia Minor on the other. Those who argue for western, Illyrian-Epirotic origin are Helbig Herm. 11 (1876): 281 (doubts by Kretschmer 1896: 280ff. with Ed. Meyer), Krahe IF 49 (1931): 143, and van Windekens Herm. 86 (1958): 121 ff.; for continental origin, Boßhardt 1942: 138f. (also on the phonetics); for origin in Asia Minor, Hrozný Arch. Orbis 1 (1929): 338, Gemser Archiv für Orientforschung 3 (1926): 183 (from Babyl. Hitt. Ul(l)uš ?; on this, see Kretschmer Glotta 18 (1930): 215), and Kretschmer Glotta 28 (1940): 253 and 278 (Odysseus as an Anatolian hero, related to Hatt. Λύξης, Lyd. Λίξος). Doubtful attempts to connect the name Ὀδυσσεύς with the name of his maternal grandfather Αὐτόλυκος by Bolling AmJPh. 27 (1906): 65ff. and Bolling Lang. 29 (1953): 293f. However, the name is typically Pre-Greek (see Fur. index) on account of the many variants. Faure's connection with ὀλίγος (Faure 1980: 33) is therefore wrong."

("Ὀδυσσεύς" in: Etymological Dictionary of Greek, edited by: Robert S. P. Beekes (Ph.D. 1969). Consulted online on 30 August 2020. First published online: October 2010.)

So, hello, Stavros. By the way, I'm Matthaios, another Greek of the diaspora. Nice to talk to you.

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