Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2015 June 8

= June 8 =

Old Persian
Is there any source mentioning the Old Persian (Achaemenian) name of Greco-Persian Wars? I also wonder whether there is Old Persian rendition of the name of Artemisia I of Caria. So far the corresponding articles contain Ancient Greek names, but only modern Iranian names are shown. Brandmeistertalk  21:42, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Our article states that there are no surviving Persian accounts of the war, so we can't know the Old Persian name of the war for sure. For the same reason, it is unlikely that we know how Artemisia's name was rendered in Old Persian.  Marco polo (talk) 13:36, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * There is a 19th-century German Old Persian dictionary that you can read online, but it does not seem to mention Artemisia or the Greek war. I bet they would have spelled Artemisia with the arta-, the same word at the beginning of Artaxerxes for example, but as Marco says, we'll probably never know. Adam Bishop (talk) 14:51, 9 June 2015 (UTC)