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Contents 1 Comments 2 modern allusions should at least be separate 3 Pronunciation? 4 Beware

[edit] Comments

just thinking that it might be good to add a section about Mino's role in Dante's Inferno as a judge of the domned.

[edit] modern allusions should at least be separate

"In Masami Kurumada's anime Saint Seiya, Minos is, with Aeacus and Radamanthys, one of the three Generals of the Underworld, and wears the surplice of the Griffon, Celestial Valiant Star."

I don't think that addition makes any sense here in an article on a figure from Greek myth. It doesn't seem to be anything more than a modern allusion to an ancient source, of which there are many; this one probably doesn't deserve to be privileged as the only one. As a japanese appropriation of western sources, there might be something interesting there - but I think its inclusion needs to be justified first. If someone wanted to create a "modern allusions to Minos" section, this could probably be placed there - but until then, I'm going to take it off. It certainly doesn't fit as the last line of the article. The greek myths were indeed reinterpreted by many authors, but if we aren't going to trace their reinterpretation from all the interceding periods between the classical and contemporary, it simply doesn't fit to jump from ancient to manga - especially since the idea of "generals of the underworld" is a rather stark departure from anything to be found in the ancient sources.

[edit] Pronunciation?

My-nos or Mi-nos? The Singing Badger 00:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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Hey, nobody answered this one. Either "i" as in "kite" or "i" as in "spaghetti" will do. I've heard both. --Glengordon01 05:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Beware

The "Menes", "Mannus", "Manu" etc. connections are most probably taken from a completely unsubstantiated movie called "Zeitgeist", which includes "truths" such as that 9/11 was "definitely" an inside job etc. --fs 12:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)