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Vulcan’s parents

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Vulcan’s parents
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
The current source leaves Vulcan’s parents unnamed and does not explicitly establish their ontology.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Reported

Vulcan blames his parents for begetting him with his disabling condition.

See evidence text
“my parents are to blame for that, not I; they ought never to have begotten me”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

1
·Reported
“my parents are to blame for that”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 22

‘Father Jove,’ he cried, ‘and all you other blessed gods who live for ever, come here and see the ridiculous and dis graceful sight that I will show you. Jove’s daughter Venus is always dishonouring me because I am lame. She is in love with Mars, who is handsome and clean built, whereas I am a cripple—but my parents are to blame for that, not I; they ought never to have begotten me. Come and see the pair together asleep on my bed. It makes me furious to look at them. They are very fond of one another, but I do not think they will lie there longer than they can help, nor do I think that they will sleep much; there, however, they shall stay till her father has repaid me the sum I gave him for his baggage of a daughter, who is fair but not honest.’