Stranger in a Strange Tongue

In a desperate attempt to find some new Iolaus-centric fiction to read, I'm now struggling through the stories at New Myths of Ancient Greece and the Iolausian Corner.

I say 'struggling' not because the stories aren't any good but because my Russian isn't. The transliterations alone take some getting used to: Iphicles is Ifikl, Iolaus is Iolai, Hercules is Gerakl and so on. But then all Western names tend to look bizarre in the cyrillic alphabet.

( Russian fanfic, translation, and Aubrey and Maturin )