Posted by Robert Hill on October 25, 2005 at 18:40:35 from 195.92.168.167 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Wilma posted by John Nichols on October 25, 2005 at 00:38:57:
Anyone think of any more.
Socrates's wife was called Xanthippe.
Xerxes, though not actually Greek (he was king of Persia), warred with the Greeks.
Zeno was a philosopher.
As far as I know there was nothing Greek about Zoroaster except that the name is a Greekified form of Zarathrustra, but these are such splendid names I think we should not complain.
I need to seek the help of reference books to find any more (looks in Who's Who in the Ancient World).
Xenophanes (not to be confused with Xenophon who's already been mentioned) was a poet and philosopher.
Zenobia was Syrian, queen of Palmyra and more or less ruler of the Eastern branch of the Roman Empire.
The west wind (personified as a horse) was known to the Greeks as Zephyrus, and was the father of wonderful talking horses one of whom was called Xanthus.
There was a painter called Zeuxis.
Zethus was king of Thebes.
Xuthus was the ancestor of the Ionian Greeks.
Still leaves a shortage of Ys and of female names.