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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: "Who Mourns for Adonais" title
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Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 21:01:07 EDT
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The "Adonais" referred to in the title of the Star Trek episode is a
character from an ancient Greek poem (Aeschylus, I think).  It is
somewhat obscure, which is why the character in the TV show was called
Apollo, an almost universally recognized name of a Greek god, rather than
Adonais, which would just be confused with Adonis, who was not a god.

	Roger ("Euripides clothes, I breaka you face") Noe

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