I’m glad most of you appreciate it. I can do this with Native American mythology too (I’m half Cherokee), and I have a basic understanding of Norse mythology pronunciations (but not like the people who actually speak the language here ^^) if anybody would like me to do another one with those ^^
Gah. Oh well. Goodbye [name]Ianthe[/name]. I could justify correcting people only if it’s a “legitimate” alternate pronunciation, which I doubted, but it was worth asking. Maybe I’ll be able to talk hubby into [name]Niobe[/name] nn [name]Io[/name] 
I don’t read ee-an-thee (ee-[name]ANNE[/name]-thee) like [name]Ian[/name] (EE-uhn), so maybe that’s why I don’t associate the two. I also know an [name]Ian[/name] pronounced EYE-uhn, just to play devils advocate, hehe.
Thanks again for the list!
Thank you for this thread, Dantea. I do appreciate it.
[name]Even[/name] if -ee names conflict with my last name. 
That’s the part that’s hard for me.
Incidentally, I swear I really did find if-i-[name]JEN[/name]-ee-uh in a dictionary though! I didn’t just make it up. (and on Nameberry… lol)
Nameberry also says to pronounce [name]Thalia[/name] as [name]Tahl[/name]-yuh which is completely wrong with Greek pronunciation rules because [name]Thalia[/name] is thay-lee-uh. ^^ No offense to Nameberry, but they’re not perfect or always right. ^^
Dantea is of course giving an approximation of the pronunciation as it is in modern Greek - not ancient Greek where “th” is pronounced like a “t”, the “e” endings more like “ay” (but not quite).
Actually, when I took my Classics courses when at my university (which is one of the best in my state and including Greek mythology and a study of the ancient Greek language), most of these were pronounced the same way I’m pronouncing them and the way most modern Greek people I know pronounce them (such as [name]Athena[/name], which is not and never was Atena).
As far as the E ending, that’s accurate because the ee sound comes of sort of like an ay when you say it in Greek, but in English is closer to ee.
I don’t mean to be argumentative, but when it comes to the Greek language, i have a very extensive background in modern and ancient Greek, I speak Greek almost as well as I speak English.
This is awesome, dantea!
I count myself lucky that my high school English teacher was 100% Greek and insisted we learned the names correctly from day 1. Most of it stuck. 
Only one I didn’t see listed that gets butchered about a lot: [name]Calliope[/name].
This is why I rely on Behind the Name for meanings, origins and pronunciations. They’re probably not perfect either but I’d say much more reliable. I see Nameberry (at least the name listings) like a baby book. They’ll list any “name” and a lot of times the meanings and origins aren’t 100% correct. I can’t remember what name it was but I saw a name that NB has listed as a “modern invented name” or something when on BTN the origin is from a surname or something along those lines. I think it was one of the -aden names actually ([name]Caden[/name] maybe?).
Anyways, back on topic. PP mentioned [name]Calliope[/name] - I admit I pronounced this wrong at first! I didn’t really like the sound of it when I tried to pronounce it myself (probably what others say - cal-ee-oh-pee). I like the cuh-ly-uh-pee (or whatever, I’m bad at explaining pronunciations lol) pronunciation way more!
I use Behind the Name for origin and meaning too because I see a lot of things on Nameberry that are completely different than on a lot of other sites.
I’ve only heard [name]Calliope[/name] pronounce cal-ee-oh-pee by a few people and I tried to pronounce it that way at first (because a lot of I’s get the ee sound) but it’s much prettier when said properly
Another I forgot to mention in the first post was [name]Elysia[/name] which is said eh-lee-see-uh but I’ve had people on here argue that it’s pronounced eh-liss-yuh/eh-liss-ee-uh because nameberry says it is and because in English, the Y and I shouldn’t make the same sounds I think was what someone told me on here, but in Greek, it’s eh-lee-see-uh (like the Elysium/Elysian plains)
Thank you for this post! It’s very interesting to see the correct pronunciations! I love Greek names 
[name]Don[/name]'t get me wrong - I’m certainly not trying to be argumentative either. I have a Master’s Degree in Classics and English. I also speak a number of other European languages but that is off the point;)
I think your list is great, and many people are happy to be able to use it. I just commented on someones question about the “th” sound.
It is true that in many English speaking countries they teach the “theta” pronunciation to be like the English “th” - and we know for sure that it was an aspirated alveolar fricative consonant - not a dental consonant. So “[name]Thalia[/name]” could be pronounced the other way that someone suggested.
Well, I’ll concede that there are some names that are pronounced with a T sound rather than a TH sound but certainly not all of them (in either ancient or modern Greek) and the pronunciations I listed are the most commonly used in Greek (as far as I’m aware).
With that, we should agree to agree on what we know is correct, and disagree on the things that we learned differently from each other as I don’t want this to turn into an argument. [name]Peace[/name]?
Thanks for this post, but I still prefer [name]Hermione[/name] pronounced in a mix like fashion “Hair-my-oh-knee”. It is high on my list, along with [name]Persephone[/name], [name]Athena[/name], and [name]Echo[/name] (who would mess up [name]Echo[/name]?). But I really love this list.
Please do a Native American list,I’d be very interested to read it.
I often consider doing a Welsh names one because a small part of my soul (the patriotic part) dies every time I see wildly incorrect pronounciations being discussed on nameberry.
I’d love it if you’d do a Welsh list! I love Welsh name a lot and I wish I knew how to pronounce them. If I did, I would probably use them in my stories.
I’ll get to work on a list of Native American mythology names and words from the Cherokee language.
Thanks for this…good to know I pronounce them all correctly (the well-known ones haha…I haven’t heard of some of them).
Thanks, Dantea! I’ve been wondering about Adrasteia {a-dras’-tee-uh} for quite some time. I heard it pronounced as ah-dra-STAY-ah and found it lovely. While I’m disappointed that it is not correct, I still like it a lot for a middle name, mainly for it’s meaning.
[name]Hi[/name], I have a question about stress. When you pronounce “[name]Ione[/name]” is it EE-oh-knee, ee-OH-knee, EE-OH-knee, or something else? Thank-you!
I wish this forum had stickies. Or at least, one sticky with links to useful threads. I’ve never seen this one, but it’s terrific and so helpful! Would it be terribly difficult to implement a feature like that into a forum? Most forums I’ve been in have them, or at least one with links as I said.
Thank you so much for this list! I adore Greek mythological names! I’ve been wondering recently about Kleio. I’ve seen it pronounced klee-oh & kly-oh. Which is correct? Also, is [name]Clio[/name] an acceptable alternative spelling? Wikipedia, for example, describes the muse as “[name]Clio[/name] or Kleio”. Thank you!!