What's in a name?

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What are your favorite literary names and/or mythological names? Authors, characters, place names...anything you can think of!

This is an extremely incomplete list, but some favorites of mine are:


Guinevere
Rhiannon
Calliope
Ophelia
Rowena
Antigone
Persephone
Eowyn
Desdemona
Ismene
Lavinia
Beatrice
Isolde
Daphne
Viola
Arwen
Maeve
Jane (Austen!)
Elinor (Sense & Sensibility...my favorite Austen character)
Olivia
Mercedes


Lysander
Milton (John, that is)
Leander
Luther
Caspian
Sebastian
Gawain
Iago
Gilbert (from Anne of Green Gables...he has immortalized this name for me)
Tristan
Hector
Arthur
Fionn
Claudio
Owain
Percival
Priam
Seamus (Heaney, haha)
Lewis (C.S.)
Wesley
Dickon
Oberon
Mercutio