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A lot of Classical Greek names are compounds of words which seem like a weird thing to name your child (Xenophon = "Foreign Voice", Polubios = "many lives"). How much do we know about the origin and evolution of Greek given names?

by /u/ChubbyHistorian in /r/AskHistorians

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