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Re: Penthesilea
by Kassios
2/14/2006, 10:41 AM
in reply to a message by Caprice
From Greek words "PENTHOS" (mourning, grief) + "EILO" (grip, squeeze, wring, grab, grasp), the name PENTHESILEA literally means "mournful grip".
“ If you live by nature, you will never be poor; if you live by what men think, you will never be rich. Nature demands little, opinion a great deal.”
(EPICUROS 341-270 BCE)

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- Caprice   +1
2/15/2006, 1:22 PM
Eucharistó!
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
~J.K. Rowling
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- Kassios
2/17/2006, 7:45 AM
Na 'sai kala!
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- Pavlos (guest)   +1
2/15/2006, 12:23 AM
...such a name makes sense, metaphorically speaking, for a Amazon queen who "meant business" in the battlefield.A more diachronic pseudo-etymology of Penthesilea could be: "penthera" (mother-in-law) and "eilo" (grip), i.e., "caught in the clutches of one's mother-in-law" :P
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- Kassios (guest)
2/15/2006, 3:51 AM
HAHAHAH!
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