Talk:Dragon's teeth (mythology)

"broadcast"
Anyone have an idea where the phrase "sowing broadcast" the dragon's teeth comes from? I've traced it to Dickens (Tale of Two Cities, III.4, "Calm in Storm"; 1859); Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter (1850) and also his Golden Fleece book in 1888. Interested in particular because of the reference also in Nixon in China (opera). -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 03:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know if this helps, but broadcasting is a type of sowing - throwing the seeds widely while progressing over a field. It is from this that that broadcasting in the radio sense is derived. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 08:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Cultural References
I question whether the Dragon's Teeth (fortification) and Dragon's Teeth (mass effect weapon) are cultural references to the mythological use of Dragon's Teeth. Personally, I think they refer more to the idea of a dragon's teeth (e.g. the fortification looks like teeth), and not to the Dragon's Teeth that grow warriors. Others' thoughts would be appreciated. MordredTheWise (talk) 16:20, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

There's a video game by the title of 'Invictus' or some such, in which Cadmus is a hero unit, and can summon warriors by means of dragon's teeth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.252.133 (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

additional possible cultural references, if they can be confirmed
During the war in Vietnam, the US military made use of cluster bombs to create instant minefields using the BLU-43 "Dragontooth" antipersonnel mine.

Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "Litany for Dictatorships" contains this passage:

"Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragons' teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.156.96 (talk) 05:23, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Spartoi
What is the difference between this article and the spartoi? Should both be merged?--ReyHahn (talk) 11:09, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Spartoi into Dragon's teeth (mythology). I think the content in Spartoi is near-identical to that of Dragon's teeth (mythology), and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in here. I am choosing Dragon's teeth as the destination page due to its much-simpler-to-find name. Also Spartoi is specifically related to the myth of Cadmus and thus less general.ReyHahn (talk) 10:17, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * As there has been no opposition to this I have gone ahead and merged Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)