{"id":176,"date":"2006-09-30T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/ancient-greek-names\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T17:35:44","slug":"ancient-greek-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question for any Classicists out there &#8211; how do you pronounce the Ancient Greek names Lycos, Nycteus and Epirus? This question was sent to me by Persephone Vandegrift, who is writing a play based on the <em>Bacchae<\/em> by Euripides and has added these new characters, who are associated with Pentheus and the story of his altercation with Dionysus,  but isn&#8217;t sure how their names should be pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>If you can help, you can contact Persephone at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:pkimberlyv@hotmail.com\">pkimberlyv@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strangeness of some of the questions received at Omniglot HQ never ceases to surprise me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question for any Classicists out there &#8211; how do you pronounce the Ancient Greek names Lycos, Nycteus and Epirus? This question was sent to me by Persephone Vandegrift, who is writing a play based on the Bacchae by Euripides and has added these new characters, who are associated with Pentheus and the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}