I know how off-putting for some Greek names can be—all those Ys, Ks, and PHs. Where possible I have suggested the easiest way for our English- speaking mouths to form them. Modern Greeks will be astonished by what we do to their wonderful names, and German, French, American, and other readers—who have their own ways with Ancient Greek—will wonder at some of my suggestions. But that is all they are, suggestions . . . whether you like to say Eddipus or Eedipus, Epidaurus or Ebeethavros, Philoctetes or Philocteetees, the characters and stories remain the same.
