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Can someone help me with this, who were the ancient etymologists who claim that Rhea (Ῥέα) derived by metathesis from ἔρα "ground"? must be many as the article claims... the one citation that has there is atleast weird. Are there any other sources? please help
and ThanksW5ry3 (talk) 22:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This is from the cited article by Hopkinson, p. 176:
"Most ancient etymologists derived Ῥέα by metathesis from ἔρα, 'ground';3 ...
3 For a full collection of evidence see O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (Munich 1906) 1524 n. 2."
So for the ancient sources you would have to see Gruppe's work in German apparently.
Ah, good, I didn't think to check the Internet Archive, here is a link to the relevant text from Gruppe, p. 1524. Note 2 gives several ancient sources. Paul August☎16:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is different and better text, also looks like he is using Rheia for ::::Rhea, Rheia appears 71 times in that textW5ry3 (talk) 16:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Paul AugustYes you are right, we wrote together in the previous post and I saw your link after. i also found this book, which have similar references,
p. 264
This is gonna be harder when I thought since i have hard time to understant the abbreviations of the sourcesW5ry3 (talk) 18:19, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
According to the orphic myths Rhea married Zeus after the Titanomachy, yet when I put Zeus in the 'consorts' part of the infobox it was removed because consorts imply long term relationships. However in the Wikipedia pages of other greek mythological figures, even very short flings are included (such as Zeus and Leda). So I'm just curious why it was removed. NeoSIMIAN-Terraform (talk) 09:12, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I've now restored Zeus as an (Orphic) consort. I was aware that in Orphic literature, Zeus raped Rhea, thereby fathering Persephone/Kore (e.g. see West, The Orphic Poems, p. 73) but I wasn't aware that Zeus ever married her. I see now that he did. Most "flings" would not be considered to be a consort (regardless of what other Wikipedia article might say). Paul August☎10:47, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
