Onomastics again

Tony Ellis · 13 Sep 1999, 11:30 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Tony Ellis" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk>
Subject: (urth) Re: Onomastics again
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:30:08
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Jim wrote:

> I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and
> um, what'shername mean - you know, the other one.

Well, I can do Thais: traditionally, that's the name of the Athenian
slave\courtesan who encouraged my hero Alexander the Great to torch beautif=
ul
Persepolis at the height of a boozy three-day victory celebration. One of t=
hose
incidents that his critics use to portray him as a drunken barbarian, but y=
ou can
see how it could have seemed like a really good idea at the time...

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