[Opinions] Favourite literary / mythological names?
I'm looking for more female names closely tied with literature or mythological characters.
My favourites:
Lucasta [pet name invented by poet Richard Lovelace]
Ophelia [Shakespeare's Hamlet]
Phaedra [Greek Mythology]
Athena [Greek Mythology]
Guinevere [Arthurian legend]
What do you think? What are your favourites?
My favourites:
Lucasta [pet name invented by poet Richard Lovelace]
Ophelia [Shakespeare's Hamlet]
Phaedra [Greek Mythology]
Athena [Greek Mythology]
Guinevere [Arthurian legend]
What do you think? What are your favourites?
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Here are some of my faves. Most of them have other associations, so I'll just put mine in ().
Sabrina (John Milton's Comus)
Miranda (Shakespeare's The Tempest)
Elinor (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
Marianne (same as above)
Phoebe or Phebe (Shakespeare's As You Like It)
Celia (same as above)
Rosalind (ditto)
Viola (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Jane (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice & Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series)
Elizabeth (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
Georgiana (same as above)
Hermione (Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale & JK Rowling's Harry Potter series)
Alice (Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Guinevere (Arthurian legend)
Elaine (same as above)
Sabrina (John Milton's Comus)
Miranda (Shakespeare's The Tempest)
Elinor (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
Marianne (same as above)
Phoebe or Phebe (Shakespeare's As You Like It)
Celia (same as above)
Rosalind (ditto)
Viola (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Jane (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice & Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series)
Elizabeth (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
Georgiana (same as above)
Hermione (Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale & JK Rowling's Harry Potter series)
Alice (Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Guinevere (Arthurian legend)
Elaine (same as above)
I like Ophelia and Guinevere. The others are ok, but I hate Athena (I find it tacky).
Evadne
Persephone
Ariadne
Eirene
Nephele
Parthenope
Hermione
Cassandra / Alexandra
Leda
Danae
Daphne
Briseis
Hebe
Hero
Helen / Helena
Leto
Andromeda
Andromache
Eurydice
Orpheus
Pallas
Ajax / Aias
Aeneas
Aeson
Memphis (f)
Electra
Evander
Juno
Salus
Vesper
Neith
Isolde
Elain
Gawain
Cordelia
Scheherazade
Somerled
Evadne
Persephone
Ariadne
Eirene
Nephele
Parthenope
Hermione
Cassandra / Alexandra
Leda
Danae
Daphne
Briseis
Hebe
Hero
Helen / Helena
Leto
Andromeda
Andromache
Eurydice
Orpheus
Pallas
Ajax / Aias
Aeneas
Aeson
Memphis (f)
Electra
Evander
Juno
Salus
Vesper
Neith
Isolde
Elain
Gawain
Cordelia
Scheherazade
Somerled
This message was edited 5/30/2009, 5:59 AM
I never heard of Levana before. I like it, but probably only would name a character that.
Too lazy to list all of the ones I like, but Medea, Freya, Galahad, Tristan and Isolde were the first ones I thought of