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Who would get annoyed if I quietly changed my name again?

    Picon small.pngAcer Blue05:34, 8 February 2011

    That would depend, for me, on what you wanted to change it to.

      Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:39, 8 February 2011

      Hypatia, perhaps. I recently saw Agora.

        Picon small.pngAcer Blue05:44, 8 February 2011

        So did I. They apparently named it that because they thought "Hypatia" was an ugly-sounding name; I disagree.

          Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:54, 8 February 2011

          None of my beeswax, naturally, but I'm skittish around folks who choose Classical Greek (or Roman, for that matter) names for themselves. Is your choice based on a fondness for mathematics, or a looming sense that you may meet an untimely end at the hands of a religious book-burning mob?

            Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:00, 8 February 2011

            The mob who killed Hypatia were a witch-burning (or witch-skinning, as it happened) mob, not a book-burning one; they thought she had hexed the prefect of Alexandria into not attending church.

              Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX06:07, 8 February 2011

              Right, none of the Christian community had anything to do with looting the library. Messy end, whatever the immediate motive.

                Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:16, 8 February 2011

                The Serapeum was destroyed in 391; Hypatia did not die until 415.

                  Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX06:22, 8 February 2011

                  So the witch-stoning faction had nothing to do with any prior heretical book-burning cell? Cool, they were astute revolutionaries then.

                    Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:33, 8 February 2011
                     
                     
                     

                    She was a rather impressive female figure for her time. The film makes her out as an atheist, which would be great but as far as the historical record shows, she was probably a pagan.

                    I don't know. ... any suggestions?

                      Picon small.pngAcer Blue06:09, 8 February 2011

                      If you want to don the mask of a leading figure, then power to you. Just saying, I wouldn't choose Archimedes nor Demosthenes for my own handle.

                        Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:36, 8 February 2011

                        To this dyed-in-the-wool hard polytheist, neo-Platonism, of which Hypatia was an adherent, does not seem all that far from atheism.

                        In the old days, almost everyone was named after heroes or big-shots of some sort; in pagan Scandinavia, people used to prefix their names with "Thor" in bids for that God's protection.

                          Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX06:42, 8 February 2011

                          In the olden days, when I was about eight or nine, living in the Near East, there was a neighbor kid named Aristotle. We called him Dealie, because when his mom would call him into the house it sounded like she was hollering, "Aristo DEALIE!!"

                            Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)07:01, 8 February 2011
                             
                             

                            Well, anyway, I don't think I'll change it, the impulse is gone.

                              Picon small.pngAcer Blue18:02, 8 February 2011
                               
                               
                               
                               
                               
                               
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