Talk:Alectrona

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There are a lot of bizarre unsourced mythology stubs on individuals not present in my rather comprehensive Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. In addition to this one, I note Penia and Porus, and possibly others. Can I list for deletion? john k 21:36, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

On further research, there are some 1000 google hits for Alectrona. most of the early ones are either not related to any mythological figure, or wikipedia mirror sites. I've seen no actual sourced accounts for the actual existence of this deity. john k 22:03, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

There seems to be a couple sites mentioning her in connection with Rhodes, which had the Helios cult; see [1] and [2], which don't seem to be WP-sourced, and [3], which mentions a sanctuary on Rhodes. Probably a single line out of one of the minor authors not normally translated. Stan 22:43, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Got it - Diodorus Siculus 5.56.3 - she was one of the seven "Heliades", offspring of Helios by Rhodos, better transliterated "Elektryone"; [4] organizes some of this. Funny, I came here because of cleaning up Porus, who was identified with a Purushotthama that I can find mentioned nowhere outside WP derivatives... Stan 22:57, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

On a roll! Check out [5], which has "ELEKTRYONE: identified with Alektrona on Rhodes, daughter of Helios and Rhodos, who receives heroic honors on the island of Rhodes (Diod. 5.56.5; schol. Pindar Ol. 7.24). An inscription from Ialysos (Rhodes) gives rules for her cult (Sokolowski [1969] no.136)", which is where the bit about mules in the sanctuary must come from. Greek transliterations just don't work well with Google... Stan 23:02, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

And the crowning moment, "we already got one" - Elektryo, linked from Helios. Hiding in plain sight... Stan 23:16, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm glad something was found. There's a bunch of weird articles like this, though. john k 23:17, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Should this article be a redirect to Elektryo? Or should we have both redirect to Electryone? Or what? john k 23:18, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It would certainly be good for one's karma to go through all these random little articles and add the sources - you can see from the websites how the original data has been twisted and mangled. Not sure what do in this case, still pondering - Electryo seems idiosyncratic, but Elektryone is ambiguous with another mythology figure. Stan 23:55, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Well, Alcmene has her own article. We could just have a disambiguation notice for that. john k 00:20, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I've merged this article with Electryone, and made this a redirect. I also created a disabiguation page Electryone (disabiguation). Paul August ☎ 21:23, 15 July 2010 (UTC)