Re: OT: babel and english
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 19, 2001, 14:06 |
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Thomas Wier wrote:
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>Right -- they're eponymous, like Romulus was for Rome.
>(I wonder if Athena was eponymous for Athens; it's hard to tell.
>She was the patron deity of the city, and was worshipped even
>in Minoan times. If the experience of urbanization of extremely
>ancient Mesopotamia is any indicator (ca. 3500 BC), where
>cities developed out of prior religious centers, the deity might
>well predate the city.)
I can't find the source right now, but I distinctly remember reading
"Probably, Athens is named after Athena, not vice-versa" somewhere.
Andreas
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