[B-Greek] What's My Name in Greek?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Oct 11 16:35:16 EDT 2010


On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I was wondering how best to put my surname, Ghilardi, into Greek. I'm not talking about transliteration, but much the way Mark Lightman converted his last name into the Greek Φωσφόρος FWSFOROS. Ghilardi is simply an Italian form of Gerhard or Gerard with a plural ending and means strong lance, brave spear or some combination thereof. So here's two possibilities I've come up with:
> 
> Ανδρειοδόρη ANDREIODORH - that's pretty smoothe, isn't it?
> Κρατερολόγχαι KRATEROLOGXAI
> 
> Can anyone suggest something better?

How about δορυσθενής [DORUSQENHS], an epithet of Ares in Homeric Hymn 8?
Aeschylus writes it with an Iota as δορισθενής [DORISQENHS] in Choephoroe 158.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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