tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8956048658884702416..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: The Men Named Epaphroditus by L.J. TraffordMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-69452774915752456752018-07-19T07:32:54.001+01:002018-07-19T07:32:54.001+01:00I do wonder how it worked in the palace where all ...I do wonder how it worked in the palace where all freedmen would have the same first two names. They can't have called each other Tiberius it would get v.confusing :)LJ Trafford https://www.blogger.com/profile/08564717315514997283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-45921639964018649532018-07-19T00:34:11.035+01:002018-07-19T00:34:11.035+01:00It might make a novel! As for Roman names, I belie...It might make a novel! As for Roman names, I believe there were just a few praenomens around for men, while women didn’t have names at all, they were just called by the family name. So you’d just be called Trafford and I’d be Bursztynski(actually, Bursztynska, because of the Polish system of making women’s names end in a). I think they must have had their own ways to call their daughters if there were two or more. In Suetonius, for example, they are referred to as “the Younger/Elder”, but I bet families had nicknames. <br /><br />France doesn’t have many given names even now, and I believe you aren’t allowed to give your kids the kind of weird and wacky names they get in English speaking countries.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com