{"id":1657,"date":"2012-04-06T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2012-04-06T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T19:11:58","slug":"beyond-fred-ancient-greek-names-for-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/06\/beyond-fred-ancient-greek-names-for-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217;: Ancient Greek Names for Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Promlog.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Greek writing from ancient greek red figure po...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bc\/Promlog.gif\" alt=\"Greek writing from ancient greek red figure po...\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek writing from ancient greek red figure pottery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking for a character name that sounds distinctive but doesn&#8217;t look like it came out of a random name generator? How about one from Ancient Greece? Often the best names come from real life. Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217; is an occasional series that provides lists of names from real-world cultures, both past and present. In other posts, I&#8217;ve covered everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/beyond-fred-italian-names-for-characters\/\">Italian<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/beyond-fred\/\">Ancient Egyptian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An important note:<\/strong> I&#8217;m listing names that I think sound cool for rpg game purposes. I&#8217;m not worrying about historical accuracy. If you&#8217;re looking for a name for historical re-enactment, please check out my list of sources at the end of this post. I also don&#8217;t usually cover name meanings, but again, most of my sources list those. Finally, I tend to stay away from names that are currently in common usage. I figure if you were interested in those, you wouldn&#8217;t be looking at this list \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h1>Ancient Greek Names<\/h1>\n<h2>Male<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Abantes<\/li>\n<li>Agapetos<\/li>\n<li>Akakios<\/li>\n<li>Aktis<\/li>\n<li>Alexios<\/li>\n<li>Bakis<\/li>\n<li>Basileios<\/li>\n<li>Bion<\/li>\n<li>Burrhus<\/li>\n<li>Daetor<\/li>\n<li>Dareios<\/li>\n<li>Diodoros<\/li>\n<li>Diokles<\/li>\n<li>Dryas<\/li>\n<li>Echemmon<\/li>\n<li>Eirenaios<\/li>\n<li>Epiktetos<\/li>\n<li>Eustorgios<\/li>\n<li>Eyrx<\/li>\n<li>Galenos<\/li>\n<li>Gennadios<\/li>\n<li>Glykon<\/li>\n<li>Gurgos<\/li>\n<li>Harpagos<\/li>\n<li>Hesiodos<\/li>\n<li>Hyakinthos<\/li>\n<li>Hylas<\/li>\n<li>Iasos<\/li>\n<li>Iphitus<\/li>\n<li>Isidoros<\/li>\n<li>Itheus<\/li>\n<li>Kadmos<\/li>\n<li>Kallias<\/li>\n<li>Karpos<\/li>\n<li>Kyrios<\/li>\n<li>Laomedon<\/li>\n<li>Linos<\/li>\n<li>Loxias<\/li>\n<li>Lykos<\/li>\n<li>Makarios<\/li>\n<li>Melampos<\/li>\n<li>Metrophanes<\/li>\n<li>Myron<\/li>\n<li>Narkissos<\/li>\n<li>Nereus<\/li>\n<li>Nikias<\/li>\n<li>Nyctinus<\/li>\n<li>Okytos<\/li>\n<li>Olympos<\/li>\n<li>Origenes<\/li>\n<li>Orthaeus<\/li>\n<li>Pammon<\/li>\n<li>Pankratios<\/li>\n<li>Phaidros<\/li>\n<li>Philokrates<\/li>\n<li>Sabyllos<\/li>\n<li>Seleukos<\/li>\n<li>Skiron<\/li>\n<li>Solon<\/li>\n<li>Talaemenes<\/li>\n<li>Thales<\/li>\n<li>Timaios<\/li>\n<li>Tros<\/li>\n<li>Xanthos<\/li>\n<li>Xenokrates<\/li>\n<li>Xenon<\/li>\n<li>Xuthos<\/li>\n<li>Zagreus<\/li>\n<li>Zenodoros<\/li>\n<li>Zopyros<\/li>\n<li>Zosimus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Female<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Achaia<\/li>\n<li>Agape<\/li>\n<li>Aikaterine<\/li>\n<li>Anthousa<\/li>\n<li>Basiane<\/li>\n<li>Berenike<\/li>\n<li>Bito<\/li>\n<li>Briseis<\/li>\n<li>Damaris<\/li>\n<li>Delias<\/li>\n<li>Demetria<\/li>\n<li>Drosis<\/li>\n<li>Eirene<\/li>\n<li>Euantha<\/li>\n<li>Eudokia<\/li>\n<li>Euthymia<\/li>\n<li>Evadne<\/li>\n<li>Gaiane<\/li>\n<li>Galatea<\/li>\n<li>Galene<\/li>\n<li>Glyke<\/li>\n<li>Haidee<\/li>\n<li>Hagne<\/li>\n<li>Helike<\/li>\n<li>Hypatia<\/li>\n<li>Iaera<\/li>\n<li>Ino<\/li>\n<li>Isidora<\/li>\n<li>Issa<\/li>\n<li>Kallistrate<\/li>\n<li>Kallixeina<\/li>\n<li>Korinna<\/li>\n<li>Kynna<\/li>\n<li>Lais<\/li>\n<li>Lasthena<\/li>\n<li>Ligeia<\/li>\n<li>Lyra<\/li>\n<li>Megara<\/li>\n<li>Melitta<\/li>\n<li>Mykale<\/li>\n<li>Myrrine<\/li>\n<li>Nemerte<\/li>\n<li>Nesaea<\/li>\n<li>Nikaia<\/li>\n<li>Nysas<\/li>\n<li>Oitane<\/li>\n<li>Olympias<\/li>\n<li>Oreithyia<\/li>\n<li>Otonia<\/li>\n<li>Pales<\/li>\n<li>Pelagia<\/li>\n<li>Phile<\/li>\n<li>Pylia<\/li>\n<li>Raisa<\/li>\n<li>Rhene<\/li>\n<li>Rhode<\/li>\n<li>Rhodope<\/li>\n<li>Sebasteia<\/li>\n<li>Semele<\/li>\n<li>Sostrate<\/li>\n<li>Sotera<\/li>\n<li>Thalassa<\/li>\n<li>Thais<\/li>\n<li>Timo<\/li>\n<li>Tryphosa<\/li>\n<li>Xanthe<\/li>\n<li>Xanthippe<\/li>\n<li>Xene<\/li>\n<li>Xenia<\/li>\n<li>Zenobia<\/li>\n<li>Zita<\/li>\n<li>Zosime<\/li>\n<li>Zoe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Hints on pronunciation<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Always pronounce the final &#8220;e&#8221;&#8211; it makes an sound like &#8220;eh&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ch&#8221; is always pronounced with a &#8220;k&#8221; sound.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Th&#8221; is pronounced smoothly, like in &#8220;this&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Sources<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tekeli.li\/onomastikon\/Ancient-World\/Greece\/Male.html\">Ancient Greek Names &#8211; Male<\/a>. This page contains hundreds of Ancient Greek mens&#8217; names. A good resource if you&#8217;re doing a game set in Ancient Greece or don&#8217;t like any of my choices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tekeli.li\/onomastikon\/Ancient-World\/Greece\/Female.html\">Ancient Greek Names &#8211; Female<\/a>. As full a resource as it&#8217;s male counterpart, above. Lists of women&#8217;s names from the ancient world are often sparse. This is a rare find for female names.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthename.com\/names\/usage\/ancient-greek\">Behind the Name: Ancient Greek Names<\/a>. Mixes male and female names together. Also includes the meaning of the names. Not as big a selection as the page above.<\/li>\n<li>Encyclopedia Mythica: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantheon.org\/miscellaneous\/pronunciations.html\">Pronunciation Guide<\/a>. Lists many names with their pronunciations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.eecs.utk.edu\/~mclennan\/Classes\/US210\/pron.html\">Hints on Pronouncing Ancient Greek Names<\/a>. A few quick pronunciation guidelines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other <em>Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217;<\/em> Posts:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/beyond-fred\/\">Ancient Egyptian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/beyond-fred-roman-names-for-characters\/\">Ancient Roman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/beyond-fred-anglo-saxon-names-for-characters\/\">Anglo-Saxon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/beyond-fred-more-anglo-saxon-names\/\">More Anglo-Saxon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/beyond-fred-german-names-for-characters\/\">German<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/12\/beyond-fred-italian-names-for-characters\/\">Italian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/beyond-fred-russian-names-for-characters\/\">Russian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/beyond-fred-names-for-victorian-games\/\">Victorian English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_a.png?x-id=185050d4-5fba-4f1f-9b48-67ebb4baea55\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a character name that sounds distinctive but doesn&#8217;t look like it came out of a random name generator? How about one from Ancient Greece? Often the best names come from real life. 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