[SWLUG] hairy

[Stephen Griffiths]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 20:03, Rhys Sage wrote:

Persius was my favourite God in Populous II

:)

Steve Griff


> >Ummm... I don't want to split hairs, but Persius is spelled Perseus.
> >:-)
> 
> Well, it looks like we're both wrong. Perseus is a constallation. Persius
> was a Roman satirist.
> The full list of Greek Gods appears to be:
> Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis: Athene, Demeter, Dionysos, Hades,
> Hephaistos, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Persephone, Poseidon, Zeus.
> 
> But... in the best spirit of British innovation: Persius is correct because
> that's how I've spelt it!
> 
> Literature written in the Latin language.
> Silver Age (AD 18–c. 130) The second major period of imperial literature
> begins with the writers of Nero’s reign: the Stoic philosopher Seneca;
> Lucan, author of the epic Pharsalia; the satirist Persius; and the novelist
> Petronius. Around the end of the 1st century and at the beginning of the 2nd
> came the historian and annalist Tacitus and the satirical poet Juvenal;
> other writers of this period were the epigrammatist Martial, the scientific
> encyclopedist Pliny the Elder, the letter-writer Pliny the Younger, the
> critic Quintilian, the historian Suetonius, and the epic poet Statius.
> 
> Algol or Beta Persei
> eclipsing binary, a pair of orbiting stars in the constellation Perseus, one
> of which eclipses the other every 69 hours, causing its brightness to drop
> by two-thirds.
> 
> 
> 
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