Re:Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city
by maw on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:19PM
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I'm not really sure what you're getting at. A lot of figures in mythology have multiple names. Paris/Alexander was one -- but today he's far better known as Paris.
The characters used to write Αλεξανδρος (no accents back then!) are interesting to me. I associated that style of script with much later times. Shows what I know.
Re:Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city
by project2501a on Friday April 12, 2024 @03:05AM
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Really? I'm Greek and that's the first time I hear about this. Do you have any more info, please?
Re:Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city
by maw on Friday April 19, 2024 @12:55PM
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It's mentioned in the first sentence of https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%82, the first sentence in the corresponding English article, and early in the corresponding pages in other languages that I checked.
I chased a few references and found the following:
The Iliad: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+3.16&...
Hyginus, in Latin: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost02/Hygi...
I assume there's more.
Apologies for nitpicking but on the picture it says "Αλέξανδρος"/Alexander, not Paris