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Names like "Jesus", "Muhammad" and "Moses" are common today among Christians, Muslims and Jews respectively. Would names like "Zeus" or "Heracles" have been common in ancient Greece? What about names like "Ra" or "Horus" in ancient Egypt?

by /u/MaxThrustage in /r/AskHistorians

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