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4 unusual facts about Roger Lancelyn Green


Deiphobus

One modern account, The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green, depicts him as a particularly unpleasant character.

Erymanthian Boar

Roger Lancelyn Green states in his Tales of the Greek Heroes that Heracles threw it in the sea.

Lancelyn Green

Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), a British biographer and children's writer

Mares of Diomedes

Roger Lancelyn Green states in his Tales of the Greek Heroes that their descendants were used in the Trojan War.


Le Morte d'Arthur

The first was published anonymously in 1950; the second by Roger Lancelyn Green, Richard Lancelyn Green and Lotte Reiniger (illustrator), first published in 1953, and the third by Emma Gelders Sterne, Barbara Lindsay, Gustaf Tenggren and Mary Pope Osborne, published 2002.

Mess of pottage

Terry Pratchett has his character Sergeant Colon say this in Feet of Clay, after Nobby of the Watch has guessed that the phrase is “a spot of massage.” Theodore Sturgeon had one of his characters say this about H. G. Wells in his 1948 short story Unite and Conquer; but Roger Lancelyn Green (in 1962) ascribed it to Professor Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.


see also

Lancelyn Green

Richard Lancelyn Green (1953–2004), a British scholar of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (son of Roger Lancelyn Green)