Ancient Roman/Greek names for a girl

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We are looking for a strong and fairly unusual name for DD (but not too out there). Current ideas are Maxima and Phoenix. Any suggestions along the same lines please?

Calliope
Flavia
Alethea
Iris
Irene (pronounced Ee-RAY-nay)
Euphemia
Rufilla

Polka, how do you say Mnemosyne? Nem-o-sin-e? it's nice. Where is it from? I can well imagine the nightmares of having to spell it out and explain it for people though!

That's right.

She's the personification of memory (like in the word mnemonic) and the mother of the muses in mythology.

Holy smoke, Mnemosyne makes Persephone seem like the most ordinary name in the world!

'mother of the muses'. I like that.

It's funny isn't it? Most people wouldn't bat an eyelid at Penelope, and most people know Hermione now. But Persephone would get raised eyebrows, and ones like Mnemosyne or Calliope are more unusual still.

Yet they all have the same structure and feel to them.

Hera
Antigone or Antigoni
Cassandra
Persephone
Diana
Cassia
Drusilla
Amara
Antiope
Berenike
Elektra
Io
Pandora
Phaidra
Philomena
Zenobia

Just don't mix a Roman name and Greek middle name (or vice versa), lest you offend the classicists.... ;)

Thalia
Callisto
Terpsichore (well maybe that takes it a bit far...)
Nausicaa

Ariadne
Danae
Minerva
Hera
Electra
Medea (depends on how you feel about future grandchildren)
Andromeda
Artemis
Persephone
Cerce

Helen
Andromache
Cassandra
Cressida

My cousins daughter is Callisto.

My daughter is Claudia. I also love Minerva and Lydia.

I love the concept. Just research the goddess carefully before you choose.

I love the name Hera, but she wasn't very nice, so I wouldn't choose it.

Antonia
Augusta
Cecilia
Drusilla
Flavia
Octavia

For some reason I don't like Greek names as much. I think it's because I like names that end in "a".

Niobe

A friend of mine who is Greek, are ds's are;

Christella
Areti (a ra di)
Cora

Another Roman one ...Sabrina

Read the myth of the name you fancy - lots are awful! Just saying...

Briseis