User talk:Marco Soldani

Email question about Echidna
Hi Marco, I got your email about our article on Echidna. If you don't mind I will answer your question here, where others might see it too (this is the usual method of communication between Wikipedia editors). You asked where I got the information regarding Pherecydes' fragment which gives Phorcys as Echidna's father included in the article:
 * The mythographer Pherecydes of Athens (5th century BC) has Echidna as the daughter of Phorcys, without naming a mother.

The cites are to the following works:
 * Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
 * Hošek, Radislav, "Echidna" in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) III.1. Artemis Verlag, Zürich and Munich, 1986. ISBN 3760887511.

The provided note gives the sources I used for this. Fowler, p. 278, gives the relevant Greek text of the fragment as:
 * Τυφῶνος καὶ Ἐχίδνης τῆς Φόρκνος

which I would translate as:
 * "Typhon and Echidna daugther of Phorcys".

While Hošek, p. 678 writes (in German):
 * Pherekydes, FGrH 3 F 7 nennt als Vater Phorkys, ohne eine Mutter anzugeben

which I would translate as:
 * Pherecydes, FGrH 3 F 7 names the father [of Echidna] as Phorcys without specifying a mother

And yes, as you suggest, this Pherecydes fragment gives some support for the argument that Hesiod (as understood by Pherecydes) meant that Ceto (and so Phorcys) were the parents of Echidna. Regards, Paul August &#9742; 10:43, 30 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you SO much! I feel like I was not very clear in my email, but you gave me the informations I was looking for nonetheless. I found especially useful the cross-reference to the LIMC. Thanks again! Marco Soldani (talk) 16:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I Thought your email was very clear. I hope you will consider contributing here. I will add our standard welcome message below, Regards Paul August &#9742; 22:39, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

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Happy editing! Paul August &#9742; 22:39, 30 May 2021 (UTC)