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Help[Facts] Oenone
Does anyone know what this name means and how to pr. it? It's derived from Greek mythology, I think.
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Pronunciation often depends on how historically accurate you want to be. In the Tennyson poem it's conventionally pronounced ee-NO-nee, but I imagine a real, live ancient Greek would give the first syllable the usual oy! The meaning? Something to do with wine; I'd do better if I had my dictionaries to hand!
In the myths, she's a bit of a loser - you'll recall that Paris won Helen of Troy for "correctly" judging Aphrodite the winner of the celestial beauty contest (Ms Olympus?); well, he'd been having an affair with a nymph called Oenone before that, and promptly dumped her without a backward glance.
In the myths, she's a bit of a loser - you'll recall that Paris won Helen of Troy for "correctly" judging Aphrodite the winner of the celestial beauty contest (Ms Olympus?); well, he'd been having an affair with a nymph called Oenone before that, and promptly dumped her without a backward glance.
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