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This original article of this name described an Occult publishing house Xoanon Publishing. However 4 of the 5 links to this page were for the wooden statue of Greeky myth. I've moved the occult article to a more appropriate name, and have created a stub here for the Greek myth reference. Please expand! Cje 08:43, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm worried about this picture. What in the text is it illustrating? It's clearly not an xoanon, is it even Greek? Twospoonfuls 18:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
You got me going there for a moment. My powers of deduction tell me that you, sir, are being facetious. I hope I don't come across like a shirty wikipedian in that way. Twospoonfuls 20:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I've removed this: ‘Such an archaic image of wood of the Tauric goddess [Artemis] was stolen by Iphigeneia and Orestes in Iphigeneia in Tauris (line 1359).’
This play was written ca. 412 BC, in a 12 to 11'th century BC setting as imagined by people in the 8 to 7th century BC. We don't know much about the inhabitants of the Crimea in the 11 century BC and I think it's safe to assume that Euripides didn't either. The situation is further complicated by the fact that his Taurians seem to have very Greek cultural practices and rather modern ones at that. (As a mental anchor, the first mud-brick temples were built in the 9th century BC and only slowly developed into their classical form.) Now, before the 3rd century BC, the word xoanon didn't have any specialistic meaning yet, it just meant a carved god figure. It couldn't have meant ‘archaic’ or ‘ancient’ at the time after all. We don't really know anything about it, except that Euripides tells us it had eyes and was brought to Brauron. I imagine he intended it to be the xoanon there, which doesn't help us since it has been lost.
Therefore we cannot put it forward as an example of ‘an archaic image of wood’ because we don't know what it looked like nor what it was made of. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 ( talk) 16:07, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
The pronounce proposed here is a modern one, used only in English; it is better to specificate it, and also clarify that the ancient pronounce of the Greek letter was "cs" https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-alphabet#ref280772 Feidhelm ( talk) 12:21, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
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This original article of this name described an Occult publishing house Xoanon Publishing. However 4 of the 5 links to this page were for the wooden statue of Greeky myth. I've moved the occult article to a more appropriate name, and have created a stub here for the Greek myth reference. Please expand! Cje 08:43, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm worried about this picture. What in the text is it illustrating? It's clearly not an xoanon, is it even Greek? Twospoonfuls 18:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
You got me going there for a moment. My powers of deduction tell me that you, sir, are being facetious. I hope I don't come across like a shirty wikipedian in that way. Twospoonfuls 20:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I've removed this: ‘Such an archaic image of wood of the Tauric goddess [Artemis] was stolen by Iphigeneia and Orestes in Iphigeneia in Tauris (line 1359).’
This play was written ca. 412 BC, in a 12 to 11'th century BC setting as imagined by people in the 8 to 7th century BC. We don't know much about the inhabitants of the Crimea in the 11 century BC and I think it's safe to assume that Euripides didn't either. The situation is further complicated by the fact that his Taurians seem to have very Greek cultural practices and rather modern ones at that. (As a mental anchor, the first mud-brick temples were built in the 9th century BC and only slowly developed into their classical form.) Now, before the 3rd century BC, the word xoanon didn't have any specialistic meaning yet, it just meant a carved god figure. It couldn't have meant ‘archaic’ or ‘ancient’ at the time after all. We don't really know anything about it, except that Euripides tells us it had eyes and was brought to Brauron. I imagine he intended it to be the xoanon there, which doesn't help us since it has been lost.
Therefore we cannot put it forward as an example of ‘an archaic image of wood’ because we don't know what it looked like nor what it was made of. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 ( talk) 16:07, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
The pronounce proposed here is a modern one, used only in English; it is better to specificate it, and also clarify that the ancient pronounce of the Greek letter was "cs" https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-alphabet#ref280772 Feidhelm ( talk) 12:21, 17 March 2024 (UTC)