Talk:Odo of Cheriton

Odo of Sherington

I created a redirect here from the above name. Odo of Sherington was a fabulist, lived in the area of Kent, at or about the same time. Nevertheless, it is possible this is not the same person, I gather that Odo is not an uncommon name, writers adopted the names of other writers, and suppose he could have been a relation. The 1776 work I provided, Villare cantianum: or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, it states that Sherington and Cherington (not Cheriton) are synonymous. This is hardly conclusive and I honestly know nothing about this. FWIW, O of S is "well known" and his works appear in the modern text An argosy of fables, book 1, classical fables: 'Avianus, Abstemious, etc.' p. 166, et seq.. cygnis insignis 15:41, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date sources

The article was largely based on encylopaedic sources over a century old. That was tolerated in earlier years but scholarship has moved forward considerably and dependence on such unreliable material needed to be eliminated if Wikipaedia is to be at all credible. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 19:21, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]