The identity of his wife is variously given: generally as Dione, but whose name may simply mean " The Goddess ," or perhaps as the Pleiad with that name ; or as Eurythemista, a daughter of the river-god Xanthus ; or Euryanassa, daughter of Pactolus, another river-god, both of them in Anatolia ; or Clytia, the child of Amphidamantes.

* Scholiast on Euripides: Alalcomeneus, Eudorus, Argeius, Lysippus, Phereus, Xanthus, Chione, Clytia, Hore, Lamippe, Melia, Pelopia ( according to Pherecydes ); Archenor, Archagoras, Menestratus, son's name missing, Astycrateia, Ogygia, Pelopia ( according to Hellanicus )

If we may believe the transmission of Nicolaus of Damascus who quotes him, Xanthus wrote the name with-ks -, like in the Hittite and Luwian texts ; given that Lydian also belongs to the Anatolian language family, it is possible that Xanthus relied on a local non-Greek tradition according to which Mukšuš was a Luwian.

** Xanthus, the gods ' name for Scamander, the great river of Troy and its patron god

Xanthos ( Lycian: Arñna,, Latin: Xanthus, Turkish: Ksantos ) was the name of a city in ancient Lycia, the site of present day Kınık, Antalya Province, Turkey, and of the river on which the city is situated.

He is known as Arses in Greek sources and that seems to be his real name but the Xanthus trilingue and potsherds from Samaria report that he had taken the royal name of Artaxerxes IV, following his father and grandfather.

Citing the historian Xanthus, he also reports that the name of the people was derived from the Lydian name for the oxya tree.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

Ptolemy and Aristotle theorised that light either shone from the eye to illuminate objects or that light emanated from objects themselves, whereas al-Haytham ( known by the Latin name Alhazen ) suggested that light travels to the eye in rays from different points on an object.

Flinders had concluded that the Terra Australis as hypothesized by Aristotle and Ptolemy did not exist, so he wanted the name applied to what he saw as the next best thing: " Australia ".

Famous scholastics such as Aquinas believed him to be so important they did not refer to him by name, simply calling him " The Commentator " and calling Aristotle " The Philosopher.

He gives several examples purporting to render descriptivism implausible as a theory of how names get their references determined ( e. g., surely Aristotle could have died at age two and so not satisfied any of the descriptions we associate with his name, and yet it would seem wrong to deny that he was Aristotle ).

* Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle, and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer.

His given name was Tyrtamus (), but he later became known by the nickname " Theophrastus ," given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation ( ancient Greek: Θεός

Besides these writings, Theophrastus was the author of several collections of problems, out of which some things at least have passed into the Problems that have come down to us under the name of Aristotle, and commentaries, partly dialogues, to which probably belonged the Erotikos, Megacles, Callisthenes, and Megarikos, and letters, partly books on mathematical sciences and their history.

Later historians applied the name to significant uses and expressions of elements of Averroes ' doctrines and to the exegetical tradition of Aristotle by Jewish and Christian thinkers as it had come down through the Latin and Hebrew traditions.

More telling is Hephaestion ’ s name being found in a catalogue of Aristotle ’ s correspondences.

Gathered partly ( by translation ) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarch, Aristotle and others ; and partly by Invention out of our owne fruitfull Orchardes in Englande, Yelding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse, bothe pleasaunt and profitable, to the well-smelling name, by London printer Richarde Smith.

More generally, for any given proposition about Aristotle, one can use the name without believing that proposition to be true of Aristotle.

So in fact if Frege's view was " descriptivist ", then he effectively agrees with Russell on most of the apparent " proper names " of ordinary language: Frege thinks that " Aristotle " is a name, with a sense, which is equivalent to some description.

Russell thinks that Aristotle is not really a name, but is ( in disguised form ) just such a description.

He is supposedly named after Simplicius of Cilicia, a sixth-century commentator on Aristotle, but it was suspected the name was a double entendre, as the Italian for " simple " ( as in " simple minded ") is " semplice ".

The genus name Aythya is derived from the Ancient Greek aithuia which refers to a seabird mentioned by Aristotle and others and is thought to refer to a duck, auklet or other seabird.

In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic or Aristotelian logic, is a loose name for the way of doing logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic in the late nineteenth century.

The binomial name is derived from Greek kerthios, a small tree-dwelling bird described by Aristotle and others, and Latin familiaris, familiar or common.

The binomial name is derived from Greek ; kerthios is a small tree-dwelling bird described by Aristotle and others, and brachydactyla comes from brakhus, " short " and dactulos " finger ", which refers, like the English name, to the fact that this species has shorter toes than the Common Treecreeper.

Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives ; Plato founded a school that gathered at the Academy, after which the school was named, making the gymnasium famous for hundreds of years ; and at the Lyceum, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.

Limburg is first mentioned in documents in 910 under the name of Lintpurc when Louis the Child granted Konrad Kurzbold an estate in the community on which he was to build a church.

* Paleontological research into fossilised skeletons, notably a whale, at the wine estate Castello Banfi ( former name: Poggio alle Mura ) in 2007.

Bismarck had at first tried to rouse the peasants of his estate into an army to march on Berlin in the King's name.

* Osiedle, a name for a housing estate in Poland

In 1891, Rice decided to charter a free-tuition educational institute in Houston, bearing his name, to be created upon his death, earmarking most of his estate towards funding the project.

The Hardenbergh estate was in a hilly area called by the Dutch name Swartekill ( just north of present-day Rifton ), in the town of Esopus, New York, 95 miles north of New York City.

In 1602 Boncompagni's estate gave it to the Collegium Ecclesiasticum Adolescentium Neophytorum ( or Pia Domus Neophytorum, a college for converts from Judaism and Islam ) until 1886, when the Vatican bought it along with other manuscripts when the Collegium closed ( which is the reason for the manuscripts name and its designation ).

The security and continued prosperity of the wealthy estate must have necessitated formal ties with local kings or chieftains, which explains the adoption of the distinctly Thracian royal name " Όloros " into the family.

However, records with the United States Patent and Trademark Office show that the rights to the Writers of the Future name were transferred from the L. Ron Hubbard estate (" Family Trust-B ") to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1989, and under the 1993 IRS closing agreement with the Church of Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard estate became part of the Church of Spiritual Technology, a " Scientology-related entity ".

" The family name " Rickover " is derived from the village and the estate of Ryki, located within an hour of Warsaw, as is Maków Mazowiecki.

The book has been the source of various terms that are used in the BDSM subculture such as Samois, the name of the estate belonging to the character Anne-Marie, who brands O.

In discussion with a lady from Kentucky, Mannie implies that underground, three-dimensional Lunar estate is recorded in the name of the woman ( or women ) in a marriage.

His name was given to Balch Road, a council estate that was built in the 1950s.

* Ashland ( Henry Clay estate ), a historic site in Lexington, Kentucky, and the source of the name of several other Ashlands.

While the origin of the city's name is debatable, the name " gold coast " was bestowed upon the city by real estate investors.

There are many estates with true châteaux on them in Bordeaux, but it is customary for any wine-producing estate, no matter how humble, to prefix its name with " Château ".

In the Seacroft area of Leeds in West Yorkshire there is a council estate named Boggart Hill ; Boggart Hill Drive, Boggart Hill Gardens and Boggart Hill were all given the name of the estate area.

As a judge he took the courtesy title Lord Auchinleck from the name of his estate at Auchinleck House, of which he was the 8th Laird.

The name Bryn Mawr means " big hill " in Welsh and takes its name from an estate near Dolgellau in North Wales.