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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPONYMOUS , that which gives a name to anything (Gr. irmvvuos, from ovo sa, a name), a See also:

term especially applied to the mythical or semi-mythical personages, heroes, deities, &c. from whom a See also:country or See also:city took its name. Thus See also:Pelops is the giver of the name to the Peloponnese. At See also:Athens the See also:chief See also:archon of the See also:year was known as the apXwv eirwvvyos, as the year was known by his name. There was a similar See also:official in See also:ancient See also:Assyria. In ancient times, as in See also:historical and See also:modern cases, a country or a city has been named after a real personage, but in many cases the See also:person has been invented to See also:account for the name.

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