Talk:Discobolus

Sneaky Vandalism
"Legend goes that the Discobolus was designed around the mythical creature of John Alexander-Carlisle."

hellloooooooo ma name is spongebob brahhhhhhhhhhhh I need a picture of it. Who's able to help me? User: Mario todte, 13:52, 4 May 2005 (CEST)
 * Request added to the Requested pictures. &mdash; RJH 19:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Smash. I thank you very much. user: Mario todte, 23 August 2005 (UTC) April 12, 2016 DISCOBOLUS OF MYRON

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Name
Is he actually called awesome greek and not rather Disobolos? The ending -us is actually latin, wehere as -os is Greek. What do you think? --Saippuakauppias 16:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

height of statue?
I noticed the text "The Discobolus Palombara stands at 1.55 meters tall (6 feet, 1 inch)." There's a slight discrepancy regarding the conversion of metric to imperial. 1.55 meters is approximately 5 feet 1 inch, not 6 feet 1 inch. I was tempted to change the text, but I wasn't sure which unit was accurate. For the record, 6 feet 1 inch is about 2.13 meters. Before I cleared up the confusion, I figured I'd post here to see if anybody responded.


 * I agree that the conversion is clearly wrong but also don't know which is the correct figure. I'm tempted to say the metric, after all the thrower is crouching but I'm not sure. Lisiate 23:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The British Museum page says it’s 1.7m: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-43 240B:C010:4A2:BD64:A517:4FAF:8582:9569 (talk) 03:11, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That's a different statue, The Discobolus Palombara is in Rome! Johnbod (talk) 04:03, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Why it's "Discobolus"
In English, Latinised yo wattsup wattsup forms of those Greek names that through long familiarity have English names are the common ones. We write "Odysseus" not "Odusseos". We have English names for Homer, Livy, Virgil, Ovid. However, sometimes the recently educated and the culturally insecure, anxious to demonstrate their superior knowledge before readers whom they expect to be in hushed awe, strain for a most "correct" formula, with a pretentious result. Wherever there is a common English form, "Achilles" rather than "Akhilleos" and so on, always go for simplicity and modesty rather than "correctness". Scholars for whom English is a learned language often err in this respect. --Wetman (talk) 21:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

dance
This is real art. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.105.216.228 (talk) 02:48, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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