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"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul"
This was
Saadi.
The article says, "Some authorities place H. litwonowii and H. transcaspicus in the related genus Hyacinthella, which would make Hyacinthus a monotypic genus." If it were a question of most authorities, I'd agree that a merge would be appropriate. But unless there's widespread belief among botanists that the other two are Hyacinthella, H. orientalis probably does deserve its own separate article.
Rivertorch (
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04:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Real Hyacinth
The flower 'Hyakinthos' of Nicander and Lucian and other ancient writters is probably the plant Gladiolus segetum (Gennadios - Plant Dictionary, 1914). G. segetum is considered until nowadays as a funereal plant as hyakinth was considered too during the ancient times —Preceding
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contribs) 00:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)Vardos (
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00:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)reply
There are various theories as to the identity of the "hyacinth" of the ancients. Alice Lindsell (ref in article) identified Homer's and Sappho's plant and Theophrastus' wild (ἀγρία) hyacinth as Scilla bifolia, whereas she considered Theophrastus's cultivated (σπαρτή) hyacinth to be the European wild larkspur, Consolida ajacis. Theocritus (Idyll x 28) uses the phrase γραπτὰ ὑάκινθος, which does fit the larkspur; see the markings on the upper petals at
File:Consolida ajacis detalle flor.jpg. With some imagination these markings might resemble the cry ΑΙ. However,
John Raven and others have considered γραπτὰ ὑάκινθος to be some species of orchid, e.g. Orchis quadripunctata. It seems highly likely that a number of different plants were included under this name.
Peter coxhead (
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17:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Perhaps it is multiple plants or just one, but any which way, the hyacinth mentioned in the legends is not this flower, and therefore the legends do not belong on this page. The fact that this flower was named after the flower mentioned in Homer is all that is relevant.
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18:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC)reply
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Colin M: Pageviews are not the sole factor used to determine primary topics. While the plant is most popular, the mythological figure easily wins in longterm significance, or at the very least is about the same. An argument that the plant should replace the figure it's named after deserves more justification.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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00:06, 23 March 2023 (UTC)reply
Oppose The plant is the most popular, but this should not be mistaken as the primary topic. The mythological figure and hero is still important enough to merit a disambiguation page between the two, getting 1/4 the page views as the plant, still a significant amount.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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04:37, 22 March 2023 (UTC)reply
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Necrothesp: Rather than make vague claims, care to present an argument? After all, the mythological figure came long before the flowers and were what the flowers were named after. How does that indicate more long-term significance for the plant?ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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00:02, 23 March 2023 (UTC)reply
Being older and the original usage of the term does not necessarily make something the primary topic (see
Boston for a prime example). Ask anybody what hyacinth is and almost all of them would tell you it was a plant! And would have done for at least the last 200 years. Even most people who are knowledgeable about mythology (of whom I count myself one). That's clear long-term significance. --
Necrothesp (
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10:58, 23 March 2023 (UTC)reply
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Zxcvbnm: searches aren't easy to construct that differentiate the flower use from the myth use, but a Google search for "Hyacinth flower OR bulb" gives me about 27.6 million hits, whereas Google search for "Hyacinth myth OR mythology" gives me about 2.5 million hits. I think there's clear evidence that the primary topic is the flower.
Peter coxhead (
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11:03, 24 March 2023 (UTC)reply
Google has a heavy bias towards trivial modern day things, which makes sense since it's not an encyclopedia. But hits are pretty much totally useless in this context because far more people will be searching for something ancient on Wikipedia as a percentage of total views. I would guess that far less people are searching for the history of hyacinths as opposed to proper plant care.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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11:17, 24 March 2023 (UTC)reply
It's not simply what first comes to my mind, but what obviously first comes to most people's minds. Even you have admitted that the plant is the most popular by quite a large order of magnitude. Now, I would be (and have been many times) the first to say that pageviews are not the be all and end all, but the plant has been around a very long time and is very clearly the primary topic in long-term significance as well. I shall return to my earlier example of Boston. The town in Lincolnshire is much older and the city in Massachusetts is named after it, but nobody in their right mind (even those of us from England) would consider that anything other than the American city is the primary topic. By your argument, however, given the English town is not obscure and is older, that would not be the case. --
Necrothesp (
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12:01, 24 March 2023 (UTC)reply
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