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 Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:48 pm
Ok, I thought this thread had already been done here, but when I went to add something to it, I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm thinking of a different HP guild. I dunno.
Anyway, this thread is for discussing the mythological bases of anything in the Potterverse. For example, the thing I came across just this weekend was in a faerie book. Apparently, a dobie is a rather dim witted type of brownie, a brownie being a household fairy very much comparable to a house elf.
Others: Remus was one of the twin brothers who founded Rome. He and his brother Romulus were the sons of the Priestess Rhea and the god of war, Mars. abandoned as babies and raised by a she-wolf. Remus was eventually killed by Romulus.
Nymphadora: A nymph is a type of female nature sprite.
Minerva was a Roman goddess of crafts, poetry and wisdom, and is known as the inventor of music.
Sybil refers to seeresses of the ancient Mediterranean.
Those are all I can remember. Anyone care to add? I find them all interesting.
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:43 am
Ah that's an interesting topic ^.^
especially the names are often from different mythologies.
Alecto is a fury in Greek. Her brother Amycus is the son of Poseidon.
Ginevra is a variation of Guinevere or Jupiter.
There are so many connections in HP.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:31 am
This isn't mythological, but I found this out in my POLI 55 course (FYS Democracy and the Civic Ideal):
Muggletonian is a nonconformist religious group that arose during the English Civil War. The last muggletonian died in 1979.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:47 pm
This is right!
See I have been taking Latin going on 6 years and all of this is correct.
Even the Motto for Hogwarts is in Latin.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:17 am
THis isnt mythological but Draco and Scorpius are star constellations
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:39 am
On Remus Lupin:
arrow The name Remus was the name of the man in the legend that was one of the co-founders of Rome. (With his brother Romulus.) In the legend, Remus and Romulus were abandoned by their uncle and left to die. While they were out in the open, a wolf mother came and nursed them as if they were cubs. The legend goes on, but the point is that Remus and Romulus were raised by a wolf.
arrow The name Lupin is a variant of Lupus, which in Latin means Wolf. That is what I thought of when Harry first met Remus in Prisoner Of Azkaban.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:28 am
if i remember correctly....argus is the name of a 100-eyed monster
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:22 pm
Absolutely right! Argus was Hera's watchman, since he would always have at least one eye open and could rest some of them while the others looked. Hera made him look after Io, the girl turned into a heifer that Zeus loved. Zeus got Hermes to go trick Argus so he could let Io escape.
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