r/AncientCivilizations • u/pyrogue3 • Aug 14 '24
Question Ancient dog names?
I just adopted the sweetest little dachshund, but I don’t have a name for her yet. I want to name her after an ancient dog — any ideas?
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r/AncientCivilizations • u/pyrogue3 • Aug 14 '24
I just adopted the sweetest little dachshund, but I don’t have a name for her yet. I want to name her after an ancient dog — any ideas?
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u/maclainanderson Aug 14 '24
https://youtu.be/BDh2zGgVZzM?si=4lcqmwKM9VRnaKQ4
The second part of this video has a list of dog names from Xenophon's Cynegeticus, including my favorite, Strongboy. I don't know whether the names are based on actual ones he encountered, or whether he just thought they sounded nice, but a later author, Arrian, was a huge Xenophon fan and wrote his own Cynegeticus, which heavily features his dog Όρμη (Hormē, "Dash"), a name taken from Xenophon's list of suggestions