From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article <3pylluhy7bic$.19h69es1baqu4$.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
   >On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:43:35 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt   
   > wrote in   
   > in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   >> In article <1hgutqmra3ic1$.smijpa0m5g7z.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   >> Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
   >   
   >[...]   
   >   
   >>>A classical version of this is Ὄυτις (Outis) 'Nobody', the   
   >>>alias used by Odysseus when he fought the Cyclops   
   >>>Polyphē“mos.   
   >   
   >[...]   
   >   
   >> In the cave of Polyphemos, on the other hand, he names   
   >> himself Ouden, "Nobody."   
   >   
   >I mentioned that incident above.  However, the sources   
   >available to me at the moment agree that he used    
   >'Nobody', not  'Good-for-nothing'.   
      
   It was indeed Outis.  At one point he invents an accusative   
   case form "Outin" to make it sound more like a name -- the   
   accusative of the pronoun "outis" being "outina".   
      
   Another classical person-in-disguise that comes to my mind is   
   Achilles, who was forced by his mother to hide from being drafted   
   by the Greek army.  On the isle of Skyros he pretended to be a   
   girl named "Pyrrha".  This would be an interesting reference to   
   use on a man:  demeaning, because of the reference to cross-dressing,   
   but at the same time flattering because of the reference to the   
   mighty warrior.   
      
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