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Post by Artemisia on Dec 6, 2003 12:00:14 GMT -5
Artemidoros = Artemis' gift. Artemis and Apollo were the patrons in antiquity of the island I call home. The name Artemidoros (very common in ancient times) stuck in my mind since I read a farewell message on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Greek I came across in the British Museum. It reads "Artemidoros be brave". A picture of the young man is in A. Kemp's section about Greece, serving as an example of "negroid admixture in Greeks". Never mind there are no nergoid features in the portrait. Never mind the experts believe the young man was not accurately depicted (his face is too long and the artist probably did not go to extreme lengths in order to get his complexion right). Kemp also got the origin of the sarcophagus wrong but that is typical of him. You are also named after Artemidoros of Daldis, a 2nd century AD writer on dreams. Isn't the Artemidoros sarcophagus lovely? I've always thought that there was something wrong with the artist's depiction. Artemidoros looks a little like a Phoenician. Of course, you can't say, like A. Kemp, that he is an example of a mixed Greek because each artist has his/her own interpretation of the subject. |
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Post by Artemidoros on Dec 6, 2003 20:50:43 GMT -5
You are also named after Artemidoros of Daldis, a 2nd century AD writer on dreams. Isn't the Artemidoros sarcophagus lovely? I've always thought that there was something wrong with the artist's depiction. Artemidoros looks a little like a Phoenician. Of course, you can't say, like A. Kemp, that he is an example of a mixed Greek because each artist has his/her own interpretation of the subject. Also Artemidoros the Geographer and Artemidoros king of Bactria. |
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Post by Pugnox on Dec 6, 2003 23:18:17 GMT -5
How about your other name, Tom David? Is it your real name? If so then blind and merciless Tyche has played a cruel game on you. Tom is Aramaic and David is Hebrew.
That's strange as every "Tom David" I've seen as either been America or English and it's now a very Anglo-Saxon sounding name.
If I were you I would change it to something like Adolf Thelittlenazi.
-That was an ad-hominem attack, funny, but still ad-hominem and undesirable. Please don't do that anymore. -AWAR[/quote]
No, that's O.K. AWAR, I will gladly accept as many ad hominum attacks as anyone would like to dish out as all it really proves it that people who disagree with me really don't have any rational arguments and that I must REALLY be getting under their skin.
Lastly, AWAR, the comment really wasn't even that clever or funny but what IS really funny is that a member on a posting board on the internet can have so much irrational hate for another member that he actually changes his signature to, "Some of the most beautiful women in the world are Indian. Hitler was scum." I am VERY powerful in his eyes- now THAT is funny...
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Post by Artemidoros on Dec 7, 2003 13:00:30 GMT -5
Stop having delusions of power. When you came to this forum, taking pot shots and insulting racial and ethnic groups, you must have expected some sort of retaliation. You used sarcasm as a feeble excuse.
You just got a taste of a relatively benign form of my sarcasm.
Thomas and David have their roots in the Middle East, as I am sure you are aware. If you can not see the irony it doesn' t matter.
I will try to explain why I have reacted the way I have, although you will probably never understand.
In 1943 after the Italian surrender or whatever you might wish to call it, German troops arrived at the Ionian islands taking possession of a territory the Italians considered exclusively theirs. The events that followed in Cephalonia and Corfu have been recently popularised by the film "Captain Corelli's mandolin". In Zakynthos (my home) the Italians did not resist and the hand-over was relatively smooth. Soon after consolidating their occupation the Germans asked the local bishop to produce a list with all the Jews of the island. The list was produced with only one name on it, the bishop's. I must add that there were 200 Jews on the island and the Orthodox Church harboured no affection for them. Although it is irrelevant I will add that the Jews of the island came to no harm.
You can take this from the story. As far as you are concerned right now, I am Indian. The simple truths displayed under my posts will remain as marks of defiance and if they are annoying so much the better.
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Post by HINDI on Dec 7, 2003 19:13:09 GMT -5
I am Indian a Hindi speaking person  |
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Post by rusalka on Dec 7, 2003 22:00:42 GMT -5
I'll quote the Encyclopedia Mythica and hopefully appear very learned  : "According to east-Slavic folklore, a Rusalka is a water spirit or water nymph. They are the souls of young women or girls who died an unnatural or violent death. If the girl was murdered in or close to a lake, she would became a Rusalka and inhabit that particular lake. Rusalkas appear as beautiful young women who try to lure men into the water, where they will drown them. Rusalki can also be found on nights when there is a new moon; dancing on meadows or open places in the woods. With their shrill laughter they are capable of killing humans. A Rusalka's fate can be undone by avenging her death." It's also a very melancholic (yet wonderful) opera by Dvorak; and a beautiful poem by Pushkin. Because my name means "fountain" I've always felt an affinity to water spirits in mythology and folklore. And a great portion of my ancestry is from Eastern Europe, so. |
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Post by Artemidoros on Dec 8, 2003 18:05:17 GMT -5
I'll quote the Encyclopedia Mythica and hopefully appear very learned : "According to east-Slavic folklore, a Rusalka is a water spirit or water nymph. They are the souls of young women or girls who died an unnatural or violent death. If the girl was murdered in or close to a lake, she would became a Rusalka and inhabit that particular lake. Rusalkas appear as beautiful young women who try to lure men into the water, where they will drown them. Rusalki can also be found on nights when there is a new moon; dancing on meadows or open places in the woods. With their shrill laughter they are capable of killing humans. A Rusalka's fate can be undone by avenging her death." It's also a very melancholic (yet wonderful) opera by Dvorak; and a beautiful poem by Pushkin. Because my name means "fountain" I've always felt an affinity to water spirits in mythology and folklore. And a great portion of my ancestry is from Eastern Europe, so. Very interesting. Rusalki remind me of the nymphs of Greek mythology. Now let me guess. Pinar? |
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Post by rusalka on Dec 8, 2003 19:12:38 GMT -5
Very interesting. Rusalki remind me of the nymphs of Greek mythology. Now let me guess. Pinar? They do to me, as well. Although the nymphs in Greek mythology are semi-divine and immortal from the beginning; and the Rusalki are not. Very good guess, I'm impressed |
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Post by herrx on Dec 10, 2003 22:16:52 GMT -5
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Praetor
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Post by Praetor on Dec 14, 2003 19:51:11 GMT -5
"According to Cicero (de Leg. iii.3) Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state; and he considers the word to contain the same elemental parts as the verb praeire. The period and office of the command of the consuls might appropriately be called Praetorium (Liv. viii.11). Praetor was also a title of office among the Latins: and it is the name which Livy gives to the strategus of the Achaeans. " www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Praetor.htmlWhen I did my first internet connection the provider asked me to create a username using latin characters.I didn't have one handy so since they asked me something "Latin" they should get something really Latin! |
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warlord
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Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe aazaadi doonga
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Post by warlord on Dec 18, 2003 14:57:56 GMT -5
I am what my screen-name is.
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