From oyster@acsu.buffalo.edu Sun Mar 7 09:27:37 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id JAA31294 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:27:36 -0800 Received: from xena.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.121]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id JAA10288 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:27:36 -0800 Received: (qmail 20578 invoked by uid 31923); 7 Mar 1999 17:27:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 12:27:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Holly An' Oyster" To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: RE: ancient name In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19990304171533.45dfa8b0@facstaff.wm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII sorry to add to what is probably a dwindling thread, but... my brother once met a set of twins in central florida named Aphrodite and Nephertiti. He only found out because the one he spoke with had a tattoo of the famous bust in Berlin, on which he commented. reportedly, they were both exceptionally lovely African Americans. Personally, my hat is off to their parents, although I'd hate to grow up with either name. Holly ------- "She had not been beautiful or particularly endearing as a child; contrary and provocative were closer to truth. Such people didn't discover young how to deal with being loved, she thought. They didn't get enough practice." -- Guy Gavriel Kay (spoken by Jehane bet Ishak in *The Lions of Al-Rassan) ===================================================================== Holly An' Oyster Department of Classics SUNY-Buffalo oyster@acsu.buffalo.edu 712 Clemens Hall Home(716)885-3788 ---------xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--------- .