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Google Books finds over 800 books using the phrase "shirt of nessus", so clearly we cannot mention all of them. In fact, I don't see any particular reason to mention any of them, except of the image of the shirt of Nessus is somehow a key or non-trivial element of the plot or imagery of the work. As far as I can tell, this is arguably true only of the T.S. Eliot passage, which combines the motifs of love and destruction. In the other case, it is simply an inescapable burden; in the Dumas passage, it isn't even inescapable -- de Villefort takes it off!
So I would suggest replacing this section with a much shorter one about the wide use of the term. -- macrakis ( talk) 03:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The article's second paragraph mentions Greek mythology, but then talks about Hercules (the Roman name). Should that be changed to Heracles for consistency ? It seems confusing to change the name used for the same man from paragraph 1 to paragraph 2. -- Teraya ( talk) 21:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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Google Books finds over 800 books using the phrase "shirt of nessus", so clearly we cannot mention all of them. In fact, I don't see any particular reason to mention any of them, except of the image of the shirt of Nessus is somehow a key or non-trivial element of the plot or imagery of the work. As far as I can tell, this is arguably true only of the T.S. Eliot passage, which combines the motifs of love and destruction. In the other case, it is simply an inescapable burden; in the Dumas passage, it isn't even inescapable -- de Villefort takes it off!
So I would suggest replacing this section with a much shorter one about the wide use of the term. -- macrakis ( talk) 03:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The article's second paragraph mentions Greek mythology, but then talks about Hercules (the Roman name). Should that be changed to Heracles for consistency ? It seems confusing to change the name used for the same man from paragraph 1 to paragraph 2. -- Teraya ( talk) 21:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)