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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: mark smyth on November 11, 2010, 05:23:17 PM
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Looking up plant names today I read that some are named after mythical Greeks. So far I have found those below. Do you know any others?
Chloris – Goddess of flowers
Daphne – Goddess of laurels
Hebe – Goddess of youth
Helia – Goddess of the sun
Iris – Goddess of the rainbow
Leucothoe – ex love of Apollo
Narcissus – the youth who loved his reflection
Tithonia – named for a man loved by Aurora
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Boopis?
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Cassiope, Andromeda, Dionysius, Artemis(ia), Polemus (polemonium)........
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Adonis
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Demis Roussos? :D
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Boopis?
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3292716
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Demis Roussos? :D
Not THAT sort of Greek God, Cliff........ ::)
Oh, you meant an ancient Greek....... :-X :-[
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Achillea
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Paeonia, Hyacinthus
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Looking up plant names today I read that some are named after mythical Greeks. So far I have found those below. Do you know any others?
Chloris – Goddess of flowers
Daphne – Goddess of laurels
Hebe – Goddess of youth
Helia – Goddess of the sun
Iris – Goddess of the rainbow
Leucothoe – ex love of Apollo
Narcissus – the youth who loved his reflection
Tithonia – named for a man loved by Aurora
Mark,
Since I've always been very interested in the Greek world of the gods, a few elaborations
Iris was also the messenger of the gods (later Hermes took on that role)
Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection because he was punished for ignoring a nymph (named Echo (she withered away after he had refused her love and only her voice remained)) who had fallen in love with him
The man Aurora loved was Tithonos
Boopis was an epithet used for a few gods and godesses (means cow-eyed)
Cassiope: Greek queen, mother of Andromeda
Andromeda: wife of Perseus
Dionysus: God of wine and ecstasy (not the drug ;)) (original god of vegetation and agriculture)
Artemisia: (Artemis): Goddess of the hunt, forests and wild animals
Polemus: personification of war (almost the same as Ares)
Adonis: Love of Aphrodite (and Persephone)
Achillea: (Achilles): Hero of the Trojan war, killed by Paris
Paeonia (Paeon): physician of the gods
Hyacinthus: lover of Apollo and Zephyrus, killed by a discuss thrown by Apollo
Centaurea: named for the centaurs
Asclepias: God of medicine and healing
Hypericum: (Hyperion) Titan, ruler of the light
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thanks everyone! Amazing what comes out of a lazy, cold, very wet windy day
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thanks everyone! Amazing what comes out of a lazy, cold, very wet windy day
Yea, but Demis Roussos top them all.
Paddy
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Who knows the name :
Kyriakos Panayiotou ;D ;D ;D
but without looking Google 8)
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Not a patch on Demi Roussos.
Paddy
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I was a fan in the 80s
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Mark,
You've had too much time on your hands today with New Zealand birds, spiders in test tubes and Greek gods. You really must get a hobby for yourself. Ever think of gardening? Snowdrops? Swifts?
Paddy
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this is what happens on a terrible November day
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Who knows the name :
Kyriakos Panayiotou ;D ;D ;D
but without looking Google 8)
Never heard of him.... does he play football?
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::) oh Maggi .....
think on music ;)
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::) oh Maggi .....
think on music ;)
Kyriakos Papadopoulos is the footballer!!
No idea about the music....... I'll have to go google!
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Oh!! Is this the one? http://www.georgemichael.com/about/ :-X :-[
Not a very ancient Greek... he's younger than I am! ;D
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:P :P :P
...and Demis Roussos ?
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Demis Roussos looks like an ancient Greek! :)
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Demis Roussos looks like an ancient Greek! :)
Would you all please stop being so unkind to my valet's favourite uncle?
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Was Bacchus (the God of Race Horses that don't win) Greek?
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Demis Roussos looks like an ancient Greek! :)
Probably smelled like one too. ???
Bad day with the Melbourne Cup John? ;D
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Ooops, posted an image of it yesterday.
Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba.
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Demis Roussos looks like an ancient Greek! :)
Sorry, I thought it read Ancient Geeks!!! ;D
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Bad day with the Melbourne Cup John? ]
My horse always runs last. Should know to back NZ horses but there are too many of them.
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Well back NZ BRED horses at least. They seem to do rather well over there. I'm not a horsey person myself, though I can admire them from afar since they are beautiful creatures but my late husband trained and I missed out on a honeymoon because he wasn't prepared to let anyone else look after the damn things even for a few days. I learned to hate them early on, but got over that later.
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Some plants named after Dutch Gods:
Vanpersia arsenalensis
Dejongia horridus
Cruijffia senilis
;D ;D ;D
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now serious :
Nassos Daphnis ( a famos breeder of Peonies ) has named a lot of his plants after greek gods and people of the greek mythologia:
Aphrodite
Arethusa
Adriane
Artemis
Aurora
Demetra
Helios
Hephestos
Hestia
Icarus
Iphigenia
Kronos
Leda
Maia
Medea
Nike
Persephone
Phaedra
Pluto
Prometheus
Terpsichore
Themis
Zephyrus
Antigone
Calypse
Clytie
Daedalus
Dyonysus
Oread
Rhea
Sappho
Thalia
Urania
Nassos Daphnis was born in Greece ( 1914 )
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This seems to be another forum page where no dropoholics are involved, except Mark then 8)
What about Galatea or Dionysos and not to forget Acis
I’m afraid that Polyphemus is stronger than the Galanthophiles and doesn’t let them free ;D ;D ;D :-X
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Anamouskari?
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This seems to be another forum page where no dropoholics are involved, except Mark then 8)
What about Galatea or Dionysos and not to forget Acis
I’m afraid that Polyphemus is stronger than the Galanthophiles and doesn’t let them free ;D ;D ;D :-X
What is a dropaholic? ???
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This seems to be another forum page where no dropoholics are involved, except Mark then 8)
What about Galatea or Dionysos and not to forget Acis
I’m afraid that Polyphemus is stronger than the Galanthophiles and doesn’t let them free ;D ;D ;D :-X
What is a dropaholic? ???
A devotee of those little white flowers that entrance some and bore others ... snowdrops!
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This seems to be another forum page where no dropoholics are involved, except Mark then 8)
What about Galatea or Dionysos and not to forget Acis
I’m afraid that Polyphemus is stronger than the Galanthophiles and doesn’t let them free ;D ;D ;D :-X
What is a dropaholic? ???
A devotee of those little white flowers that entrance some and bore others ... snowdrops!
We do try not to, after all Maggie has swept us up our own little corner to keep us out of the way 8) ;D 8)
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This seems to be another forum page where no dropoholics are involved, except Mark then 8)
What about Galatea or Dionysos and not to forget Acis
I’m afraid that Polyphemus is stronger than the Galanthophiles and doesn’t let them free ;D ;D ;D :-X
What is a dropaholic? ???
A devotee of those little white flowers that entrance some and bore others ... snowdrops!
We do try not to, after all Maggie has swept us up our own little corner to keep us out of the way 8) ;D 8)
There are always a few undutiful boys in a group ::) ::) ;D
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;D ;D ;D
8) 8) 8)
;D ;D ;D
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We could branch out into singers named after plants.... Nana Muscari? ;D
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My husband says Scilla Black.
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Bon Jovi Barba?
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Freddie Mercurialis
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Tritonia
Heracleum
Artemisia
Ismene
Helenium
Amaryllis
Calypso
Polyxena, Hecuba, Paris, etc. were not Greeks.
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Polyxena, Hecuba, Paris, etc. were not Greeks.
You are correct of course. They were Trojans (Troy was located in what is now Turkey), probably descendants from some native people deeper in Anatolia. They had a lot of contact and traded a lot with the Greeks.
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We do try not to, after all Maggie has swept us up our own little corner to keep us out of the way 8) ;D 8)
And rightly so! ;D
I really like Nana Muscari. Well done Paul. Wish I'd thought of her. And Scilla Black. :D
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Thanks to everyone for their input
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Mark,
Is that a subtle way of saying.... "Enough already!!"? ;D
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No Paul. More would be good.
I have quite a list now that I'll show later.
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No Paul. More would be good.
I have quite a list now that I'll show later.
Is now later enough??
cheers
fermi
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Michaelia jacksoniana?
Sedum Ximonstein? (darker version of Sedum Karfunkelstein)... ;D