| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7008 Registered: 4-2010 |
While I think of some more puzzles, a quick scrund: I used to have a scrund about Greece. What was it? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3505 Registered: 9-2009 |
Relevant: people? Language? Location? Geography? Size? History? Something considered Greek? such as Greek salad? A certain location in Greece relevant? Tourism? Weather? Sports? Politics? Financial trouble relevant? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 818 Registered: 9-2010 |
Greek mythology? Religion? Romans relevant? Troy? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7011 Registered: 4-2010 |
Relevant: people? Language? Location? Geography? Size? History? Something considered Greek? such as Greek salad? A certain location in Greece relevant? Yes Tourism? Weather? Sports? Politics? Financial trouble relevant? Greek mythology? Yesish Religion? Yesish Romans relevant? Well, one place in Rome. Troy? Everything else is a No. | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1484 Registered: 11-2003 |
Any of the Greek islands relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7018 Registered: 4-2010 |
Any of the Greek islands relevant? No | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 405 Registered: 8-2010 |
Grease relevant? :P You mention that a place in Greece and in Rome is relevant. Same place? Greece: Country? Ancient Greece? Roman Greece? Rome: City? Empire? Holy Roman Empire? Mythology and religion are sort of relevant. What about Roman mythology? Religion? Christianity? Polytheistic religions? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7027 Registered: 4-2010 |
Grease relevant? :P No, neither the musical nor the, erm, cooking...thing. You mention that a place in Greece and in Rome is relevant. Same place? Well, I thought they were. Greece: Country? This Ancient Greece? And this Roman Greece? Rome: City? This - Ancient Rome Empire? Holy Roman Empire? Mythology and religion are sort of relevant. What about Roman mythology? Also relevant-ish, as well as... Religion? ...this... Christianity? ...but not this... Polytheistic religions? ...and Yes to this. The relevant religions are those of Ancient Greece and Rome. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 825 Registered: 9-2010 |
Aha...so, because Ancient Greeks and Romans worshipped essentially the same gods and goddesses (mostly, they just seemed to have different names, except Apollo for some reason)...is that relevant? Did you think Rome was in Greece rather than Italy? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7028 Registered: 4-2010 |
Aha...so, because Ancient Greeks and Romans worshipped essentially the same gods and goddesses (mostly, they just seemed to have different names, except Apollo for some reason)...is that relevant? Not really. Did you think Rome was in Greece rather than Italy? No. You have an FA about the word "location". | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 827 Registered: 9-2010 |
Ok...did you think a certain building in Rome was the same as a place in Greece? Colosseum relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7031 Registered: 4-2010 |
Ok...did you think a certain building in Rome was the same as a place in Greece? Yes, although both were buildings. Colosseum relevant? No | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 830 Registered: 9-2010 |
Did the buildings have the same name? Were they temples? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7035 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did the buildings have the same name? Almost - Googling is allowed. Were they temples? Yes | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 831 Registered: 9-2010 |
LTPF list of temples in Rome: Temple to All the Gods, known as the Pantheon - Campus Martius Temple of Antoninus and Faustina - Roman Forum Temple of Apollo Palatinus - Palatine Hill Temple of Apollo Sosianus - Near the Theater of Marcellus Temple of Bellona (Rome) - Near the Theater of Marcellus Temple of Caesar - Roman Forum Temple of Castor and Pollux - In the Roman Forum Temple of Concord - Roman Forum at the base of the Capitoline Temple of Cybele (Magna Mater) - Palatine Hill Temple of Divus Augustus behind Basilica Julia Temple of Hadrian - Campus Martius (Built into Chamber of Commerce building) Temple of Hercules Victor Temple of Isis and Serapis - Campus Martius Temple of Janus (Roman Forum) Temple of Janus (Forum Holitorium) Temple of Juno Moneta - Capitoline Hill Temple of Jupiter (Capitoline Hill) - Capitoline Hill (under Palazzo Conservatori) Temple of Mars Ultor - Forum of Augustus Nymphaeum often called (erroneously) a Temple of Minerva Medica, formerly in the Forum Transitorum Temple of Minerva Medica, named in literary sources but no longer extant Temple of Peace - Forum of Peace (now mostly covered by Via dei Fori Imperiali) Temple of Portunus - Near Santa Maria in Cosmedin Temple of Romulus - Roman Forum Temple of Saturn - West end of the Roman Forum Temple of Siriaco - Janiculum Hill Temple of Venus and Roma - Northeast corner of the Roman Forum Temple of Venus Genetrix - Forum of Caesar Temple of Vespasian and Titus Temple of Vesta - Roman Forum Temple of Veiovis - Capitoline Hill (Basement of Palazzo Senatorio) Any of these? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7037 Registered: 4-2010 |
LTPF list of temples in Rome: Temple to All the Gods, known as the Pantheon - Campus Martius First shot on the nose - the Pantheon is the Roman half of the scrund. Should be just a quick step to the Greeks... | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 832 Registered: 9-2010 |
The Parthenon??? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7038 Registered: 4-2010 |
The Parthenon??? Yes, and that is the **********SPOILER********** For a few years, I thought the Pantheon and Parthenon - both ancient temples, though the former is in Rome and the latter in Greece - were one and the same. What cured this scrund? Yes, Kaylee, it was Carmen Sandiego. No, I'm not kidding. Incidentally, I was cured of another scrund while running this puzzle - I'd thought the Pantheon was in Greece, but Google cured that one. Well done Kaylee, and everyone else who asked questions. Next puzzle coming up. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 833 Registered: 9-2010 |
Hurrah for Carmen Sandiego, she stole Balin's scrund! What do you know, she did something good for a change! :-D | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 155 Registered: 9-2010 |
They're not? Seriously? I just realized that. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7046 Registered: 4-2010 |
Don't worry too much, Gregory - I was only cured of that less than a year ago. And scrund puzzles seem to have a tendency to cure the scrund in others - see Kaygee's "Blushing Bride" in the active section (though it has just been solved) and Noel's "A Christmas scrund" in the December '09 section for more examples of this. Thankfully, no one shared my "Sympathy for the Devil" scrund - that would have been bad. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1150 Registered: 6-2008 |
In this high school class we all had to take called Western Civilization, our teacher told us to remember that "parthenon" has an N after the "the", like "Athens" or "Athena", which indicates its location and connected deity. "Pantheon", in contrast, is like "pantheistic", meaning "worshipping all gods". | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 173 Registered: 9-2010 |
But weren't the Greeks pantheistic too? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 7102 Registered: 4-2010 |
Yes, but the Parthenon was dedicated to one particular goddess (Athena), whereas the Pantheon was a temple for all gods. |
