03-29-2006, 11:21 PM
Quote:We have a picture of the Clytemnestra 'Rooms with Bath' sign up in the department!Can you upload it? This is going to be nice.
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Travel Agency "Odysseus"
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03-30-2006, 12:06 AM
Quote:And a flippant Google search bought up Helen of Troy beauty and home productsHelen of Troy owns OXO...  hock: its a wonder they don't have her in the television ads.....so that's how she tempted Paris....with her gravy :lol: :lol: :lol: regards Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association [url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url] The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon -
03-30-2006, 12:28 AM
Achilles Procurement We aim to deliver pragmatic solutions to assist all our valued current and prospective clients to achieve their strategic procurement goals. :lol: :lol:
and to get there in..... Achilles Inflatable Boats Trojan Battery Company I can't stop laughing..... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cristina
The Hoplite Association [url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url] The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon - 
03-30-2006, 06:52 AM
Well of course, there are the Ajax, Sparta and Heracles soccer clubs..
I always laugh (secretly) at the dumbfound faces when I ask Ajax fans after which Ajax their club is named... :evil:
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
03-30-2006, 10:04 AM
Quote:Achilles Procurement We aim to deliver pragmatic solutions to assist all our valued current and prospective clients to achieve their strategic procurement goals. :lol: :lol: ROFL. :lol:
[size=75:wtt9v943]Susanne Arvidsson
I have not spent months gathering Hoplites from the four corners of the earth just to let some Swedish pancake in a purloined panoply lop their lower limbs off! - Paul Allen, Thespian [/size] ![[Image: partofE448.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/GloryofSparta/partofE448.jpg)
03-30-2006, 10:11 AM
Quote:Quote:Tantalus restaurant:lol: I bet the waiting times would be no fun! I've BEEN there, it's on Crete - I just couldn't read the name at the time, but I'll bet that's what it was!
03-30-2006, 10:15 AM
How about "Phillistine Cultural Centre" ? Apparently, it's in Gaza ( courtesy of Tinker Naylor).
03-30-2006, 10:23 AM
Philistines got only bad press just because medieval writers bushed them.
They were more cvilised from their adversaries. Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos http://hetairoi.de/ http://hoplomachia.gr http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
03-30-2006, 06:04 PM
Actually, it's not surprising to find it there - Palestininian and Philistine are thye same word. It just so that they pronounce the 'P' as 'F', so we should be speaking about 'Falestine' anyway..
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
03-31-2006, 01:39 AM
Quote:Actually, it's not surprising to find it there - Palestininian and Philistine are thye same word. It just so that they pronounce the 'P' as 'F', so we should be speaking about 'Falestine' anyway..Thats interesting.....I, for one, didn't know that......
Cristina
The Hoplite Association [url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url] The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon -
08-23-2007, 12:14 AM
To go back to the initial posting, about "Odysseus Deluxe Travel Collection", here is the car that made me ask for more examples of particularly inept classical names for modern companies. I've spotted the car in my street several times, I do not know the owner. And I wonder who wants to travel with Odysseus, and be eaten by Cyclopes, changed into pigs, swallowed by the Charybdis, etc., and in the end find his home taken over by squatters.
![[Image: odysseus_travel.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/2/weg/odysseus_travel.JPG) To summarize the list of inept names:
08-23-2007, 12:59 AM
I made this one up, Achilles socks, now with heel gaurd.
Dan/Anastasios of Sparta/Gaius Statilius Rusticus/ Gaius Germanicus Augustus Flavius Romulus Caesar Tiberius Caelius (Imperator :twisted: <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt=":twisted:" title="Twisted Evil" />:twisted: )
Yachts and Saabs are for whimps! Real men have Triremes and Chariots 8) <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" />8) !
08-23-2007, 01:03 AM
And I also thought of Narcissus Therapy, the slogan is Learn to love everyone.
Dan/Anastasios of Sparta/Gaius Statilius Rusticus/ Gaius Germanicus Augustus Flavius Romulus Caesar Tiberius Caelius (Imperator :twisted: <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt=":twisted:" title="Twisted Evil" />:twisted: )
Yachts and Saabs are for whimps! Real men have Triremes and Chariots 8) <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" />8) ! 
08-23-2007, 06:25 AM
Augean Waste Solutions
In my former job, these were a customer of mine. I always thought this was a really amusing name for a hazardous waste transfer station/ treatment, and disposal outlet . Especially as they specialised in recycling :lol: I wonder if they ever managed to clear out their old stock, or did they have to get Hercules Environmental Ltd in to help them ? :wink:
Memmia AKA Joanne Wenlock.
Friends of Letocetum
09-27-2007, 04:49 PM
And in this series of inept ancient names for modern companies, I proudly present: Pegasus Air. You remember what happened to Bellerophon? Indeed, he fell from his flying horse and was killed.
![[Image: pegasus_air.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/2/weg/pegasus_air.JPG) To summarize the existing list of inept names:
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