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From: "Diana Wright" <dgw1@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: classical names in America
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:36:26 -0500
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Well, there is Troy, Alabama, which has always looked fairly bleak.

DW


----- Original Message -----
From: Pesely, George <PeselyG@apsu.edu>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:43 PM
Subject: RE: classical names in America


> David Lupher asked:  Can anyone think of other instances of New Word
places
> with classical names bestowed because the American site really seemed to
> resemble the Greco-Roman place?
>
> If I remember correctly, Verrazzano named an area which is now part of the
> Carolinas in the southeastern U.S. "Arcadia" (but the name somehow
migrated
> to the north, lost the R, and was eventually supplanted in its new
location
> by the name Nova Scotia).
>
> Does Memphis count as a classical name?  The city in this state by that
name
> is on the left bank of a mighty river, and near a delta.
>
> George Pesely, Austin Peay State Univ., Clarksville, Tennessee
>
>

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