From: Rick McCallister
Message: 48198
Date: 2007-04-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> <<The point in my posting is that there are plenty
> of
> name changes. Why should the Greeks be different.
> BTW: How about Biblical names of the other? Names of
> the other in other sacred texts.>>
>
> I'm not positive what you mean, but Paris is also
> called
> Alexander in Homer. And supposedly Priam was
> originally
> called Podarces and underwent a name change.
>
> A lot of non-Romans in Roman times had double names.
> King
> Tut changed his name.
>
> Here are some examples from the Bible:
> And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
> brother king
> in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
> 2 Kings 24:17
>
> And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king
> over Judah
> and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim.
> 2 Chronicles 36:4
>
> Maybe this helps.
> Steve Long
>
>
>