From hambrosia@earthlink.net Thu Mar 9 07:29:48 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA56722 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:29:47 -0800 Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA19128 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:29:46 -0800 Received: from [38.26.182.174] (ip174.stamford6.ct.pub-ip.psi.net [38.26.182.174]) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA29174 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:29:40 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: hambrosia@earthlink.net (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000309054152.00b32610@idirect.com> References: <4.3.0.20000309054152.00b32610@idirect.com> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:21:26 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Debra Hamel Subject: Eponyms Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" David Meadows writes: >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. On the other hand, in North America the middle names with which some of us get saddled can point to the names of dead relatives. So we're not as perversely different from less televisual societies as it might seem. Debra Wish-It-Were-Buffy Hamel ----------- Debra Hamel eponymous@dhamel.com phone: 203-281-7594 38 Garfield Avenue http://www.dhamel.com fax: 630-604-3986 North Haven, CT 06473 ------------------------------------------------------------------- .