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April 21

revenge against Clytemnestra

The stories in the plays by the Big 3: Aeschylus, Soohocles, and Euripides, about the killing of Clytemnestra by Orestes and Electra all leave something basic out, in my opinion. Clytemnestra and Agamemnon's daughter, and Orestes and Electra's sister, Iphigenia, was sacrificed by Agamemnon. Wouldn't a normal son or daughter have viewed that as a partial justification for Clytemnestras killing of Agamnemnon in a society without police? But I'm not asking this for your reaction to my opinion, I'm asking if any Classical Greek critics, Medieval critics, or recent critics have pointed to the obvious lack of motivation for revenge, given Agamemnon's perfidy. Also, Artemis pushed Agamemenon into the killing of Iphigenia(no excuse) and her twin brother Apollo pushes Orestes and Electra into revenge against Clytemnestra. Surely some critics have pointed out all the trouble those twin deities (demons?) have caused?Rich (talk) 03:19, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Conradin's name in Sredni Vashtar

The protagonist of Sredni Vashtar is named Conradin, presumably after the king. Why did Saki choose such an odd name? The real Conradin also died young, but that's scarcely unusual. Marnanel (talk) 08:42, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The presence in Saki's stories of characters called Clovis Sangrail, Theodoric Voler, and Egbert (surname never given, or failing that forgotten by me) suggests the Middle Ages had a strong appeal for him. --Antiquary (talk) 10:01, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Conradin was the subject of other contemporary literary works, so Saki's readership would have been familiar with the name and its associations. See Conradin#In literature. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.194.109.80 (talk) 19:43, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Portland, Somerset

Furter to a question on the Language RefDesk, our Portland disambiguation page lists a place called Portland, Somerset, which is linked to List of United Kingdom locations: Po-Poz. The location given there is 51° 7′ 12″ N, 2° 45′ 0″ W, which locates to the town of Street, Somerset. Is this some sort of coordinate error and is there really a place called Portland somewhere in the county of Somerset? Alansplodge (talk) 11:24, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Portland is the nickname of that area of Street (around Portland Road north of Stone Hill). I don't think it's an official suburb/area name. Nanonic (talk) 12:02, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) The OS map labels a neighbourhood "Portland", where the other maps only have Portland Road. List of United Kingdom locations: Po-Poz was created back in 2007 by User:Pigsonthewing, with Portland present in the initial version. Maybe he could comment on what the source for that initial version was? --Wrongfilter (talk) 12:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting a longer list article. I neither added nor removed individual locations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:06, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~~According to [1] this is a small town on the south coast. You can view it on the Street map here: [2] (no pun intended). 2A02:C7C:F2B9:CD00:FDD3:E92F:4E08:A68A (talk) 14:03, 21 April 2025 (UTC)~~LTA. Dekimasuよ! 14:27, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Portland Bill and Isle of Portland? That map is of Street, Somerset, which is not on the south coast. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:10, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://streetmap.co.uk/map?x=347500&y=136500&z=0&sv=347500,136500&st=4&tl=Portland+in+Somerset&mapp=map&searchp=ids Stanleykswong (talk) 22:32, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The geolinks in List of United Kingdom locations: Po-Poz lead to a location on Google Maps some 500 metres (550 yd) south-southwest of that indicated on explore.osmaps.com and streetmap.co.uk, across the A39 (Quarry Batch – Westway), in the middle of what looks like a green undeveloped field. ‑‑Lambiam 08:53, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From the map it appears to be the cemeteries around Portland Road, Cemetery Lane, Woods Batch and the Westway (A39). Stanleykswong (talk) 13:27, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks all. Since it appears to be non-notable (to say the least), I intend to remove it, unless anyone objects. Alansplodge (talk) 15:32, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]