Name sightings (Part 1)

This is such a great list!

Also, [name_m]Theophilus[/name_m] & [name_m]Septimus[/name_m] made me wonder if some of the names used in [name_f]Jamaica[/name_f] today might share similar history with Dominican names? I read an article recently about a classics professor, [name_m]Dan[/name_m]-el Padilla Peralta, and his opinions on the future of classics as a field, and it mentioned this about classic names being used in the Dominican Republic (tw slavery):

Summary

Like their counterparts in the United States, slavers in the Dominican Republic sometimes bestowed classical names on their charges as a mark of their civilizing mission, so the legacy of slavery — and its entanglement with classics — remains legible in the names of many Dominicans today. “Why are there Dominicans named Temístocles?” Padilla used to wonder as a kid. “Why is [name_m]Manny[/name_m] [name_m]Ramirez[/name_m]’s middle name Aristides?” Trujillo’s own middle name was Leónidas, after the Spartan king who martyred himself with 300 of his soldiers at Thermopylae, and who has become an icon of the far right.

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