http://rheymus.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] rheymus.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] inverarity 2012-05-14 02:35 am (UTC)

AWESOME

The poetic image is awesome, but on an historical quibble: Daughter has no name is more of a Roman custom than Hebrew. Roman male Peasants had 2 names = first name and surname eg Gaius Marius, Roman male middle class would have first name and two surnames eg Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman males aristos would have first name and lots of surnames. Roman women had no first names, they only had surnames.

It is a big deal for a Jewish woman to have no first name.
It is commonplace for Roman women.

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