Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.
I looked at the names of these persons from a Turkish perspective!
Letter E & F & G:
Tufts word | Meaning | Turkic word | Meaning | Other info |
Echeclus | a son of Agenor, who was slain by Achilles. (Hom. Il. 20.473; Paus. 10.27.) A Trojan of the same name occurs in the Iliad. ( | oglu | son | eki?: equal, or „2“ |
Echemon | a son of Priam, who was killed, with his brother Chromius, by Diomedes. (Hom. Il. 5.160; Apollod. 3.12.5.) | eke-men | men/man: suffix for exaggeration | egemen ist ein modern Turkish name |
Echepoles | The Homeric poems mention two personages of this name, the one a Trojan, who was slain by Antilochus (Il. iv 457, &c.), and the other a Sicyonian, who made Agamemnon a present of the mare Aethe, in order not to be obliged to accompany him to Troy. (Il. 23.293, &c. ) | oglu | son | |
Echetlus | a mysterious being, about whom the following tradition was current at Athens. During the battle of Marathon there appeared among the Greeks a man, who resembled a rustic, and slew many of the barbarians with his plough. | ek-: to sow, to scatter | >Old Turkic ekerge: field; etiz: watered field | Hungarian eke: plow ( i have written a big about that) |
Elicius | The origin of the name as well as the notion of Jupiter Elicius is referred to the Etruscans, who by certain prayers and sacrifices called forth (eliciebant or evocabant) lightning or invited Jupiter to send lightning. (Plin. H. N. 2.54; Ov. Fast.iii,327, &c.; Varro, de Ling. Lat. 6.94.) The object of calling down lightning… | yalki | 1 to glitter 2 flame, ray | Proto Altaic: p ̔iàlk ̔i lightning, thunder: Tung. *pialki-; Turk. *jAlkɨ-; * ETRUSCAN ORIGIN!!! |
Eriboea |
| Eri: acc. the man | bog- (verb): to strangle | > she who can/, who strangled a man? |
Enalus | was a man from Lesbos…When she was on the point of being thrown into the sea, her lover, Enalus, embraced her, and leaped with her into the deep. But both were saved by dolphins. | inal/ınal: a title of a man, or a name (there are many noble men with the name INAL in Turkish history | <ina-: to entrust, to trust | |
Eratus | a son of Heracles by Dynaste, was king of Argos, and made a successful expedition against Asine, which was besieged and taken. | er: man | ata: father | >Erata! Argos ist a very interesting kingdom anyway. Inakhos ( I think it is a Turkic title) war the first king |
Erginus | a son of Clymenus and Buzyge or Budeia, was king of Orchomenos. | erngen: young man | <er-: to get mature | >ergin: mature; OR ergene: fording point, passage, mountain gorge >ERGENEKON |
Eris | an ugly deity | eris | a girl like a boy, German: Burschikos | i have already written about her in my blog |
3x Eteokles | three sons of three families | Ete/Ata: father ancestor | oglu: son | |
Eubuleus | Εὐβουλεύς Eubouleusmeans "good counsel"[1] or "wise in counsel"[2]) is a god known primarily from devotional inscriptionsfor mystery religions. The name appears several times in the corpus of the so-called Orphic gold tablets spelled variously, with forms including Euboulos, Eubouleos and Eubolos. | oy: idea, thoughts | bul: to be; to find | |
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Gabaeus | Gabai=os), ruler of the Lesser or Hellespontine Phrygia, is mentioned by Xenophon (Xen. Cyrop. 2.1.5) as one of the allies of the Assyrians against Cyrus and (the supposed) Cyaxares II. | kaba | swollen, thick, mighty | ~ KabeIroi? |
Galeus | that is, "the lizard," a son of Apollo and Themisto, the daughter of the Hyperborean king Zabius. | Proto Altaic: k ̔ile a k. of fish or lizard: Tung. *xilkun; Mong. *kilim; Turk. *keler / *keleŕ / *kelte. | PTurk. *keler / *keleŕ / *kelte lizard (ящерица): Karakh. keler (MK); | |
Garanus | hepherd of gigantic bodily strength, who is said to have come from Greece into Italy in the reign of Evander, and slew Cacus. | karang the dark | the dark (the symbol of the earth, opposite of the shiny and bright sky) | there is a chieftain called Karang Attu Han |
GEPHYRAEI | an Athenian family or clan, to which Harmodius and Aristogeiton belonged | from Gephyra: Bridge | See Turkic köprü=bridge | i have written about this word in my blog |
Gerana | Pygmean woman, and wife of their king, Nicodamas, by whom she became the mother of Mopsus | ger-: yer? (town, village) | ana: mother, (Ana is a part of Turkic female deities). | |
Geron | that is, "the old man; | kır | grey | |
Glaphyra | an hetaera, whose charms, it is said, chiefly induced Antony to give the kingdom of Cappadocia to her son Archelaüs, in B. C. 34. | Kalovur | leader, guide | Kul: slave |
Gorgo | Homer knows only one Gorgo, who, according to the Odyssey (11.633)), was one of the frightful phantoms in Hades: | Kork- | to fear | |
Gorgopas | a Spartan, acted as vice-admiral under Hieax and Antalcidas successively, in B. C. 388. | Korku: fear | baš: head |
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