I was thinking about how some ancient Greek names are quite long and was curious if they ever used shortened versions of each others names as we tend to do today? For example “Harrison” shortened to “Harry” or “Jessica” shortened to “Jess” is common today, would Diomedes be called something like “Dio” by his friends? Or how Hercules (I know this is roman) is called “Herc” in the disney movie…
We had a greek boy at my school called Euripides, and everyone just called him “Rips” for short, so this got me curious.
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