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Re: Trailer of coming attractions
Maybe the Athenians gave their girl children names like that, coz they wished they were cool like the Spartans. :)I always liked the Spartans better, anyway. The Spartans always seemed (to me, anyway) to be the wolves while the Athenians were the domesticated dogs.Hey, aren't you originally a Spartan, Pavlos?-- Nanaea
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Yep, my grandfather was born in Vachos (derived from Bacchus), a small village close to the town of Areopolis, in the region south of Sparta called Mani:)
Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote an excellent book about my home turf, *Mani*.
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