Talk:Chimera (mythology)

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Contents 1 Female monster 2 Parentage 3 Chimaera and Cimmerians 4 Displaying s-cedilla character 5 Complaint 6 Duplicate content? 7 No Chinese Chimera's descriptions

[edit] Female monster

Is it known that the Chimaera was female? Or is it merely a guess from the "-a" at the end of its name? Χιμαιρα is Greek for "billygoat". how do you do chicken

I agree -- the line "The word Χιμαιρα is Greek for billygoat" seems to be a non sequitur

This article currently says that it's male "yet" it has a mane. That implies to me that it used to say "female despite a mane" and someone changed part of it. It currently makes no sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Chimaira is generally regarded as female despite the mane. I've made the change. ==Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 22:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parentage

There seems to be different versions about the parentage of the Nemean Lion and the Sphinx. One version is that it is Orthus mating with his mother Echidne rather than his sister Chimaera (this and this, so Chimaera plays no part. Pantheon.org(here and here), a generally reliable source for these things, says that Typon and Echidne are their parents. I found other versions, which the original writer seems to have learned from, that Chimera and Orthus are the parents.

Clarification, please.

[edit] Chimaera and Cimmerians

Many historians believe that mythical monster "Chimaera" is a posterior "monsterization" (by ancient Greek myth-makers) of Cimmerians, an ancient warlike people lived (or invaded from Scythia of Eastern Europe) in southwestern Anatolia (Lycia?).

--IonnKorr 13:12, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I would call Lycia SW Anatolia myself; can you remember specific historians?Septentrionalis 04:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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Why do you need to put that its a Greek myth so leave it alone.

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[edit] Displaying s-cedilla character

The character that Xollob has just kindly reinstated at the end of "Yanartas" (I presume it is a s-cedilla but can't tell) displays on my screen as a little square. Is there anything I can do to get it to displeay correctly? TobyJ 15:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Try switching your computer's base font to unicode; but this is a question whether non-portable characters, even when correct, are desireable. Septentrionalis 19:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Complaint

IT'S actually spelled CHIMAERA NOT chimera and its very complicated to search if thye cite has the wrong spelling

This edit by an anon seems a valid complaint; I post it here for the record. Septentrionalis 22:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

It's spelled both ways, ae=>e in later Latin orthography...if it's hard to search for, learn to search better, I say...--Josh Rocchio 15:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

"Chimera" is, nowadays (I believe), the preferred spelling. At least in the US...dunno how those wacky Brits might spell it :) (chimæra?) Applejuicefool 19:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

But he has a point, its exactly spely "Chimairia" as it is in Homer (the iliad). Just thought you would like to know that. reagrds. METALFREAK04 13:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate content?

The list under "Chimera in popular culture" is almost identical to that on the Chimera disambiguation page, though the latter is broken down into separate categories - fiction, games and music. Maybe this list can be merged into that one, as this article is supposed to be specifically on the Chimera in Greek mythology, and other uses of the term should probably be kept to the disambiguation page? Miss Lynx 17:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Chinese Chimera's descriptions

I know a Chinese ancient imagined animal is translated to Chimera. I don't know if anyone could give more detailed descriptions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.68.49 (talk) 16:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)