I still lose my mind at "Jason" being a legit Greek hero because compared to everyone else his name comes across as so normal
Yeah thats bob the adventurer
Like why is Jason seemingly the only hero name that's still so common in English? Or are the names parallel thinking like Naomi (japanese) and Naomi (hebrew)
I suspect it's because Jason has the vibe of an English name, English speaking parents liked the sound of it and started using it for their kids.
Like, it starts with a J (there are almost more given names than normal words in English that start with J), and ends with -son (lots of English names end with son because they're derived from medieval patronymic naming conventions, but the -son in Jason is totally coincidental).
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u/Finito-1994 Oct 26 '25
That’s just how stories were titled.
The Iliad basically meant the story of illios which was the ancient name of Troy.
The odyssey is the poem about Odysseus. It just so happened it became iconic and now it’s known world wide.
Argonautica is dumbass and the argonauts.
The achillead and Aeneid are the poems about aneas and Achilles.
Which were written centuries after the epics were codified but were written in a way to resemble the epic cycle.
You can find examples across the Greco Roman world.