Greek-and-Roman-mythical-names-Letter-B

 

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

I looked at the names of these persons from a Turkish perspective!

Letter B:

Tufts word	Meaning	Turkic word	Meaning	Other info	Further Info
Many names with Bacchae	All have to do with Bacchus	Bak-: to look after, to care	>Bahşı/Bakşı meaning Shaman-like persons who were history teller, fortune teller, dancers	Shaman had a thyrsus or arrows and they liked leopards, too	Bacchus was most probably of Thracian origin
Baetylus	is in reality the name of a peculiar kind of conical shaped stones, which were erected as symbols of gods in remarkable places, and were from time to time anointed with oil, wine, or blood.;sacred stones which were supposedly endowed with life, or gave access to a deity.	beti:	to describe, to portray	<bet: face, front
Baeus	Bai=os), the helmsman of Odysseus, who is said to have died during the stay of the latter in Sicily	Bay:	rich, respectable
Bas	（Βᾶς), king of Bithynia, reigned fifty years, from B. C. 376 to 326, and died at the age of 71. He succeeded his father Boteiras, and was himself succeeded by his own son Zipoetes. He defeated Calantus, the general of Alexander, and maintained the independence of Bithynia.	baş	head; chieftain
many names with BASILEI…	mostly philosophers, authors, clergy	başlı	clever, smart	<baş: head
Bateia/Batieia	a daughter of Teucer or of Tros	BATI AY	ay: moon, Bati: west, sunk moon?
Batrachus	a Lacedaemonian sculptor and architect of the time of Augustus. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 14	Bat-:	>batir-: to spear	batrak: the flag
Boreas	Βορᾶς), the North wind, was, according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 379), a son of Astraeus and Eos, and brother of Hesperus, Zephyrus, and Notus.	Bora	North Wind	I have written a blog about that name
Buzyge	the first man to yoke oxen to a plough and introduced cultivation to Athens	buzagu	baby of a bull

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