Athene- what do you think?

[sleepyhead3]

Am quite liking this at the moment. What do you think? Do you prefer Athene or Athena (or neither)!!

I love Greek names, and my preference would be for Athene because Athena slightly reminds of the poster shop!

Ooh no. It just reminds me of the old poster shop.

I prefer Athene, for the same reason as hobbgoblin.

If you pronounce it the Greek way though, the accent would fall on the last 'a' and not on the 'e'. I have a friend called Athina/Athena and as she's Cypriot that's how I pronounce it.

have a cousin named Athena

Athene, definitely. Great name. (ath-eee-nee)

or ah-thee-nee. You know what I mean I actually know a great artist with this name, the type of person that sends you chakra beads in the post and has a giant artichoke patch. I really like it and have never heard it used on little people. Fab unique historic choice.

It reminds me of someone I knew

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_for_Athene

It was a beautiful name on her.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_for_Athene

What about Minerva if you like goddess names

Yes, forgot about the old poster shop!! Used to love it when I was a teenager too!

Isn't that a contraceptive pill?

Hey if we started a thread of contraceptive names (yasmin et al)... would anyone notice?

oh dear must go and do something constructive... lalala

Love it.

i think its pretentious in a 2009 chantelle kind of way.

I like it.
The only one I know is a physics professor... which is about as far from the chakra-beads-and-artichokes as you could get. Still suits her.

Love it. We were seriously considering it for DD2 but it doesn't go with DD1's name.

Both lovely, but have a slight preference for Athene.

Thx guys- just checking again!

DD's middle name is Athene (we're Cypriot, so I hope we get away with not being pretentious ) I like both, we went with the 'e' ending because her first name ends with an 'a' (Lydia Athene fwiw)

how about Althea? its lovely and gets you away from dodgy 90's poster associations that we all seem to remember

Althea is pretty dizzy but I love the fact that Athene was the Greek goddess of wisdom!!

prettier than healing herb I'll give you that