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I've been taking an interest in Greek mythology names lately. Of course, they're not the usual mythological names like Athena. Oh no, they're the obscure ones that I always seem to go for. ;-D

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Anyway, for the past couple of days I've been especially liking the Poly- names from Greek mythology. (Poly means "many" in Greek, btw.) So here are the Poly- names I have on my own personal mythology name list. Pronunciations are semi-educated guesses:

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Female:
1. Polycaste (POL-ee-cast-ee)
2. Polydora (POL-ee-dor-ah)
3. Polyhymnia (POL-ee-him-nee-ah)
4. Polymede (POL-ee-mee-dee)
5. Polyxena (POL-ee-zee-nah) - A daughter of King Priam of Troy and Hecuba. A sister of Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and Polydorus
6. Polyxo (POL-ee-zoh)

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Male:
1. Polybotes (POL-ee-boh-teez)
2. Polychronus (POL-ee-kroh-nus)
3. Polydeuces / Polydeukes (?) - Twin brother of Helen. Half brother of Castor, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Phoebe, and Philonoe
4. Polydorus (POL-ee-dor-us) - See Polyxena
5. Polyphemus (POL-ee-fee-mus)
6. Polypoetes (POL-ee-poh-et-teez)

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My favourites are Polycaste, Polydora, Polymede, Polyxena, Polydorus, and Polyphemus.

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(Btw, BtN also lists Polycarp. However, it's not a mythological name and so isn't listed here. I don't care for it anyway.)

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Miranda