Talk:Lapiths

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Should this article be plural or should it be Lapith?

Aside from Wikipedia, the Lapiths are a tribe rather than an individual, like the Centaurs. Individual Lapiths have names, like Perithous the Lapith. --Wetman 20:31, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"Lapithes"

I have made the former entry Lapithes a redirect here. The text read: "In Greek mythology, Lapithes was a god, father of Lesbos" If there was an eponymous Lapithes, from whom the Lapiths took their name, he should be discussed here (with a reference to the myth source). The Lapiths are connected with Thessaly rather than the Pelasgian natives of Lesbos. Am I missing a point? Have I created a problem? --Wetman 20:31, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have also moved here the following text: "According to some, the Lapithae are representatives of the giants of fable, or spirits of the storm according to others. " The Lapiths are not among the Gigantes, nor are they connected with storms in surviving text, mention of cult rites or iconographic representation. Prof. Some and Rev. Others are never good sources for Greek myth. --22:43, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)"

Albanian folklore

Albanian folklore is irrelevant this is about the antiquity."and survive among Albanian traditions as the "sworn virgins" (virgjinesha,"This should be removed as Scythians are involved as well.Megistias (talk) 20:08, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Albanian medieval and later folklore is truly irrelevant to the antiquity.Also amazons were not virgins and the sworn virgins are thus irrelevant as wellMegistias (talk) 19:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)