Talk:Dragon's teeth (mythology)
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[edit] "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)
