"Nitpicking" really is much more polite than the Dutch term, isn't it? ;-)
Having browsed mythological websites a lot (as can be inferred from my lj username) I get the impression the greeks didn't exactly have standardised spelling...
I dunno. Is it the greeks who didn't have standardized spelling, or is it that we spell their names differently according to which language we're spelling in? (I.e. 'Hercules' versus 'Herakles' or 'Hercule')
Thermopylae: hey, cool. I didn't know about the meaning of the name. (I knew it was a mountain pass, yeah, but I figured the battle makes more sense in this context. Bit like Agincourt - everyone knows the battle, rather than the village.)
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Having browsed mythological websites a lot (as can be inferred from my lj username) I get the impression the greeks didn't exactly have standardised spelling...
I dunno. Is it the greeks who didn't have standardized spelling, or is it that we spell their names differently according to which language we're spelling in? (I.e. 'Hercules' versus 'Herakles' or 'Hercule')
Thermopylae: hey, cool. I didn't know about the meaning of the name. (I knew it was a mountain pass, yeah, but I figured the battle makes more sense in this context. Bit like Agincourt - everyone knows the battle, rather than the village.)