Miscellaneous notes

PEGASUS
   Winged horse of Greek mythology.  Springs of water gushed forth at the
strike of his hoof.

BALDUR etc
   Several characters from Norse mythology may be encountered in Asgard.
   (I am well aware that Fenrir was a wolf but claim author's licence.)

BUCEPHALUS
   Favourite horse of Alexander the Great (356-323BC) who was the founder of
Alexandria; a seat of learning from 331BC-642AD.

LYONNESSE
   Country off the coast of North Devon and Cornwall supposedly submerged
into the sea.

GENIE
   A spirit in Muslim mythology who takes on various shapes, usually those
 of enormous hideous men.

TOTTER
   A rag and bone man.

ARCHILOCHUS
   c600-c401BC Greek poet.

AESCCHYLUS
   c525-456BC  A prolific Greek dramatist.

AGATHON
   c446-401BC Greek poet and playwright.

Coecus APPIUS
   4th-3rd cent.BC Roman politician.

ARISTOTLE
   c384-322BC  Greek philosopher.  Founded a school at Lyceum in Athens.

EUCLID
   c330-260BC  A Greek mathematician who lived in Alexandria.

ARCHIMEMEDES
   c287-212BC  A Greek mathematician who formulated 'Archimedes law' and
invented the Archimedes screw.

ERATOSTHENES
   c276-194BC Greek geographer who calculated the Earth's circumference to
within 200 miles

THEOCRITUS
   270BC-  Poet of Syracuse and Alexandria.

HIPPARCHUS
   c190-120BC Greek astronomer who invented trigonometry.

Lucius ACCLUS
   170 - c85BC Roman playwright.

PTOLEMY
   c100-170AD  Egyptian astronomer and geographer who developed theory that
the Earth was the centre of the universe.

COPERNICUS
   1473-1543AD  Polish astronomer who advanced the theory that the Sun and
not the Earth was the centre of the universe.  (It made the maths. much
easier !)



  DO NOT ASK WHY THESE CHARACTERS ARE LIKELY TO APPEAR IN THIS ADVENTURE !