Language/Ancient-greek-to-1453/Culture/Ancient-Greek-first-names-for-tattoos
I've received messages from members of the site asking Ancient Greek first names, to do a tattoo.
Those names have a lot of history and culture behind them.
Of course, if your interest is mainly in appearance, you always have the option of creating your own name.
Here are a few names you can use.
Good luck to all of you !
| The Olympian Gods | Hesiod | ||||
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| Zeus (Jupiter)
Hera (Juno) Poseidon (Neptune) Hades (Plouto) Hestia (Vesta) Athena (Minerva) Apollo Demeter (Ceres) Artemis (Diana) Hermes (Mercury) Ares (Mars) Aphrodite(Venus)(Bacchus)Bacchus) Dionysus (Bacchus) Hephaestus (Vulcan) |
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| Greek philosophers, you should know |
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Socrates (469- 399 BC) “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing’ Plato (428-348 BC) “Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself’ Aristotle (385-323 BC) “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” Thales of Miletus (625- 546 BC) ‘The past is certain, the future obscure.” Pythagoras (570- 495 BC) ‘Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few’ Democritus (460- 370 BC) ‘Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul’. Empedokles (483- 330 BC) ‘God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere’.
Anaxagoras (510- 428 BC) “Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun is a hot rock.” Anaximander (610 – 546 BC) ‘A citizen without property has no fatherland’ Epicurus (341-270 BC) ‘The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it’ Heraclitus ( 535 – c. 475 BC) "'no one can enter the same river twice" Zeno of Elea (490 -c. 430 BC) "The arrow will never reach the target!" Pythagoras (570 BC – c. 496 BC) “A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence” Democritus (460 – c. 370 BC) "There are an infinite number of atoms, and kinds of atoms, which differ in shape, and size". Xenophon of Athens (430 – c. 354 BC) "Follow me, then, and learn". |
| Αρχαία ελληνικά ονόματα ηρώων | Ancient Greek Names of Heroes |
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Αχιλλεύς Ηρακλής Έκτορας Ιάσονας Οδυσσέας Περσεύς Προμηθέας Αινείας Ορφέας Θησέας |
Achilles Hercules Hector Jason Odysseus Perseus Prometheus Aeneas Orpheus Theseus |
| Primordial deities | English name |
|---|---|
| Ἀχλύς (Akhlús) | Achlys |
| Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr) | Aether |
| Αἰών (Aiōn) | Aion |
| Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē) | Ananke |
| Éros (éros) | Eros |
| Χάος (Kháos) | Chaos |
| Χρόνος (Khrónos) | Chronos |
| Ἔρεβος (Érebos) | Erebus |
| Γαῖα (Gaîa) | Gaia (Gaea) |
| Ἡμέρα (Hēméra) | Hemera |
| Ὕπνος (Húpnos) | Hypnos |
| Νέμεσις (Némesis) | Nemesis |
| Νύξ (Núx) | Nyx |
| Θάλασσα (Thálassa) | Thalassa |
| Θάνατος (Thánatos) | Thanatos |
| Οὐρανός (Ouranós) | Uranus |
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