| Article 3127 of sci.astro: | |
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| >From: | zmacy82@flamingo.doc.ic.ac.uk (D Spinellis) |
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| Subject: | Re: Question For Greek Astronomers |
| Message-ID: | <1015@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> |
| Date: | 4 Sep 89 18:59:19 GMT |
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| Reply-To: | dds@ecrcvax.uucp (Diomidis Spinellis) |
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In article <3280004@wdl1.UUCP> gerolima@wdl1.UUCP (Mark K Gerolimatos) writes:
> Do the Greeks call the planets by their Greek god names?
>
> I.e. do they say "Hermes, Aphrodite..." instead of "Mercury, Venus..."
Yes:
Name Spelling
---- --------
Hermes Ermhs
Aphrodite Afrodith
Gea Gh
Ares Arhs
Dias Dias
Kronos Kronos
Uranos Oyranos
Poseidon Poseidvn
Pluton Ploytn
For the spelling I have used the alphabet as:
abgdezhuiklmnjoprstyfxcv
(alpha, beta, ..., omega)
> -Mark Gerolimatos (I'm as much Chinese as I am Greek),
Diomidis
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