Talk:Baucis and Philemon

Bible similarites...

Is it just me or does the content of this article ring tones of the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah? Both stories involve two entities from the heavens coming into a sinful city. They also both involve the entities destroying the city in a flood like way & climbing a mountain without looking back. Well? Spawn Man 02:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

It is directly referred to in the Bible:

Acts 14

11And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

12And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. 2603:6010:1600:645:1C22:E06D:C8DA:E6F (talk) 02:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

The first writer to ever tell this story was the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses; his primary influence was a Hellenistic source, who in turn, it is generally believed, heard the stories of Lot and Soddom (and that of Abraham and Sarah) from the Jewish population in Asia Minor. CaptainCanada 22:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC) ∫®ˆå˜ 嬴≈ˆß

Jupiter & Mercury

If it only appears in Ovid, should they not be used, or at least mentioned? Johnbod 03:16, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's a good point. --Wetman 08:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

all of the quotes you have taken are not from the original text by Ovid, most likely later translations that have become more and more dissociated from the orginal text. An example is the use of "Iuppiter... Atlantiades" Jupiter and Mercury (Grandson of Atlas). Also in the other quotes similar lines of latin are given, but they are not direct translation.

Genesis 1:19

Genesis 19:1 is about Lot and his wife, not about Abraham and Sarah. I believe there's another place that mentiones the latter couple's encounter with the angels undercover. --A. Gharbeia (talk) 01:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)