Talk:Faunus

It´s not the same Faun than Faunus?

I think these two pages Faun Faunus

shoul be one. --AQUIMISMO (talk) 16:44, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Faun

Both articles complement each other. This one digs deeply into historical issues and the into the artistical point of view. Better as one more complete article. José Luiz ^talk 14:53, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Disagree, one's about fauns and the other is about a god. And it's not as if fauns have no cultural relevance independent of the god (eg. Pan's Labyrinth). Ribbet32 (talk) 17:20, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Ribbet is correct. the two articles are about different things, fauns being a type of forest spirit, and faunus being a specific god. MrTheChimp (talk) 23:43, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I've now clarified the subject of Faun and removed the merge tags as no consensus has been built in favour of the proposal. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:05, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference in Gower

John Gower’s Confessio Amantis at V.6808-6960 tells a story: Faunus is besotted by appearance of “Eolen” (Iole ??). His elaborate attempt to get Iole into bed (with Faunus atop Hercules) fails when when Hercules awakes throws him to the ground (V.6925). Gower attributes this tale to some unnamed poet. Perhaps with better research this tale could be added to the Wikipedia article of Faunus or Iole.Rdmoore6 (talk) 21:21, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Further reading suggests that this tale is from Ovid's Fasti book two. I will add a paragraph to the Omphale article which seems best home for the story.Rdmoore6 (talk) 15:01, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Wolf etymology WP:UNDUE

The argument that Faunus stems from 'wolf' has WP:UNDUEWEIGHT. I am about to clean-up the /etymology/ section. Azerty82 (talk) 11:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)