From dmeadows@idirect.com Thu Mar 9 02:47:38 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA10636 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 02:47:38 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA14322 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 02:47:37 -0800 Received: from default.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-80.look.ca [216.154.52.208]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA96560 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 05:48:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000309054152.00b32610@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 05:41:56 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Beautiful language Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cassandra began as a popular name ca. 7-8 years ago -- probable reason: the existence of a character on 'The Young and the Restless' by that name (and I think there was one on another soap at the time, and there continues to be one or two on soaps). It's an interesting cultural statement that in, e.g., Sicily, one can use first names as a clue to names of grandfathers, grandfathers' brothers, etc. (and I think the same often applies with Roman names), whereas in North America, first names can be used as a clue to popular television programs at the time of birth. dm At 06:04 PM 08/03/2000, you wrote: I'd like to know when and how Cassandra became such a popular name. ]|[David Meadows]|[ http://web.idirect.com/~atrium ]|[Rogue Classicist]|[ .