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To give the actors added height, and with it metaphorical stature too.
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Which also gave us (via the word for a flourishing green shoot) the element
thallium, a favourite of crime writers and criminal poisoners.
fn6
Sharing her name with the Muse of comedy.
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Sometimes just Auxo.
fn8
Atropine, the poison derived from mandrakes and Atropa belladonna (deadly
nightshade), gets its name from this last and most terrible of the sisters.
fn9
Later Greeks considered the Fates to be not daughters of Night, but of Necessity –
ANANKE. They bear a very strong resemblance to the Norns of Norse mythology.
fn10
The TAGIDES were nymphs associated within just one river, the Tagus, but now
that I’ve mentioned them we can forget all about them as we shan’t meet them ever
again.
fn11
Atlas’s brother MENOETIUS, whose name means ‘doomed might’, had been a
furiously powerful and terrible opponent too, but Zeus had destroyed him with one of
the very first thunderbolts.
fn12
These later images, however, show him holding up not the sky but the world.
fn13
To some mythographers Kronos (the Titan) and Chronos (Time) are quite separate
entities. I prefer the versions that unite them.
fn14
Astronomers consult classical scholars when they name the heavenly bodies in
our solar system. The numerous moons of Saturn include Titan, Iapetus, Atlas,
Prometheus, Hyperion, Tethys, Rhea and Calypso. Then there are the Rings of Saturn.
Perhaps they signify time, like the rings of a tree.
fn15
Some of the Titanides were very attractive and – as lustful, highly sexed and
prone to falling in love as any being that has ever lived – Zeus already had designs on
one or two of the more appealing ones.
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