Xanthus

At 13 I created the name Xanthus based on the mythical sound - the band never quite formed around the name.

impaled gail, lynched lyndon 2007

The waters of the Scamander had the singular property of giving a beautiful colour to the hair or wool of such animals as bathed in them; hence the three goddesses, Minerva, Juno, and Venus, bathed there before they appeared before Paris to obtain the golden apple: the name Xanthus,

The Iliad of Homer 2003

Nor less on land, I call Xanthus and Simoïs to witness, hath been my care of thine Aeneas.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

a beautiful colour to the hair or wool of such animals as bathed in them; hence the three goddesses, Minerva, Juno, and Venus, bathed there before they appeared before Paris to obtain the golden apple: the name Xanthus, "yellow," was given to the Scamander, from the peculiar colour of its waters, still applicable to the Mendere, the yellow colour of whose waters attracts the attention of travellers.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

It is not over the plain before Troy that the river now flows; its waters have edged away far towards the north, since the day that “divine Scamander” (whom the gods call Xanthus) went down to do battle for Ilion, “with Mars, and Phoebus, and Latona, and Diana glorying in her arrows, and Venus the lover of smiles.”

Eothen 2003

Whom the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

Well, and about this river - to know that he ought to be called Xanthus and not Scamander - is not that a solemn lesson?

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

'Whom,' as he says, 'the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.'

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Gods and men to the same things, as in the verse about the river God who fought with Hephaestus, 'whom the Gods call Xanthus, and men call

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Against Vulcan also was the great deep-eddying river, which the gods call Xanthus, and men the Scamander.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840