A scene from Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (765-84) preserves a parody of the event which featured Palamedes' brother Oeax writing a message on oars in the hope that one will reach his father Nauplius with news of the betrayal and murder.

It was an unlovely colonial farmhouse, box-shaped and gambrel-roofed, fast falling into the ground.

Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.

After hearing the demo the record label approved funding to record the song with a full band.