Demetrios

[poliphilo]

I've been told that the name Dmitri derives from Demeter, Earth Mother. I don't know whether this is true or not.

But- think about it- Dmitri is presumably a corruption of Demetrios (as in Demetrius and the Gladiators) and Demetrios has to be derived from Demeter.

How cool that a man's name should be derived from that of a Goddess! Are there other examples? I can't think of any.

P.S. There is, of course, a St.Demetrios. He's the patron saint of Thessalonika. He was an aristocrat who converted to Christianity, openly defied the Emperor Maximian and got butchered in a cellar for his pains. No, I didn't know this off the top of my head- I just looked it up here- http://www.comeandseeicons.com/inp142.htm

Comments

[archyena.livejournal.com]

I like this one (http://www.comeandseeicons.com/phn65.htm). That's just too neat.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He's sitting in an egg-cup!

[archyena.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought! Saint Simeon, martyred when cracked by a spoon!

[catvalente.livejournal.com]

Demetrios more likely means "son of Demeter" it's the ios ending, you see....

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm sure you're right.

[thewayupward.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but I am quite appreciative of his bright pink leggings.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He's a doll.