From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #93 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, May 3 2006 Volume 06 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Re: Deneria [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 06:14:03 +1200 From: cr Subject: [chakram-refugees] Re: Deneria On Tue, 02 May 2006 01:35, you wrote: > I think the solution mystery of the two Deineira is that some one just made > a mistake in naming heroines. Deineira was Hercules's wife in mythology so > when they married him off they used her name since they were at this point > using the myths as a starting point for telemovies. Okay, that would seem to be the most likely explanation. Still a bit of a YAXI - errm, YAHI - I'd say. > Anyway ROC's character > doesn't seem to have anything to do with Herc's wife and although she does > have a crush on Herc, he seemes to have thought of her as a little sister. Yes, agreed. Possibly the writers of Lost Kingdom thought events might go in that direction and found that the story led them elsewhere. > Anyway there is no reason two different characters can't have the same > name - we can perhaps assume that Deineira was just a really popular name > afterall I know 2 Pams, 2 Janes, and 7 or more Kathys. In the New > Testament there are so many Marys that even Biblical scholars can't keep > them straight (it is estimated that 25% of Hebrew women were named Mary or > some variation of that name). So Deineira was just a fashionable name in > bronze age Greece. > > CherylA Yes, in Greece, but not in modern times. I can't think of any other prominent characters in the series that share names. Anyway, thanks for throwing light on it. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V6 #93 *************************************