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Is he actually called awesome greek and not rather Disobolos? The ending -us is actually latin, wehere as -os is Greek. What do you think? --Saippuakauppias16:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed the text "The Discobolus Palombara stands at 1.55 meters tall (6 feet, 1 inch)." There's a slight discrepancy regarding the conversion of metric to imperial. 1.55 meters is approximately 5 feet 1 inch, not 6 feet 1 inch. I was tempted to change the text, but I wasn't sure which unit was accurate. For the record, 6 feet 1 inch is about 2.13 meters. Before I cleared up the confusion, I figured I'd post here to see if anybody responded.
I agree that the conversion is clearly wrong but also don't know which is the correct figure. I'm tempted to say the metric, after all the thrower is crouching but I'm not sure. Lisiate23:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In English, Latinised yo wattsup wattsup forms of those Greek names that through long familiarity have English names are the common ones. We write "Odysseus" not "Odusseos". We have English names for Homer, Livy, Virgil, Ovid. However, sometimes the recently educated and the culturally insecure, anxious to demonstrate their superior knowledge before readers whom they expect to be in hushed awe, strain for a most "correct" formula, with a pretentious result. Wherever there is a common English form, "Achilles" rather than "Akhilleos" and so on, always go for simplicity and modesty rather than "correctness". Scholars for whom English is a learned language often err in this respect. --Wetman (talk) 21:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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