Talk:Demetrius

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Removed redirect to Talk:Demetrius_I_of_Bactria. The disambiguation page needs to have its own talk page. Matchups 03:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

John Chadwick in The Mycenaean World (ISBN 0521290376) finds this etymology unconvincing. (p 87) The problem is that the derivation of "da"="ge" is circular. (Demeter is the earth-mother; -meter is "mother" therefore "da" is earth.) It wasn't attested elsewhere with that meaning at the time that book was written. Are there more recent developments that say otherwise? TCC (talk) (contribs) 03:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)