An Interesting Footnote

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this has been discussed, but I found it while reading The Wife of Bath's Tale for the [insert horrifically large number here]th time.

In reference to the line "Of Livia he told me and of Lucy," where the Wife is listing some of the bad wives her fifth husband used to tell her about in order to keep her in line (which failed miserably):

"Livia was either Augustus's wife, who poisoned several prominent Romans (including her own husband) for political gain, or Livilla, Livia's granddaughter, who poisoned her husband at the instigation of her lover Sejanus."

Intruiged, I went to Wikipedia and read this article.

Feel free to discuss the implications of this, but I also wanted to ask if anyone thought there was anything specific in the characters' names.  We already know that at least Attolia (and Eddis, if you buy into that whole "Helen" thing which I do not :-b) has an ironic name (potentially chosen for its irony?), and we know that "Eugenides" means "well-born," and of course there's dear wise Sophos, but what about people like Philologos ("lover of truth" or "word," etc)?  Would anyone happen to know what any of the other characters' names mean?

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[rowana.livejournal.com]

And I, rather idiotically, posted that comment before reading the wiki article. What an interesting find. *goes back to read*