Amaryllis (given name) Amaryllis (given name) Amaryllis (Αμαρυλλίς) is a female ancient Greek name and means "sparkling". According to mythology, the name of the flower Amaryllis derived from the nymph Amaryllis. Amaryllis is not a very popular name in Greece, nor in other countries. It is not included in the Greek Orthodox calendar, that means, that Greek Orthodox knows no nameday for Amaryllis.(Update, Amaryllis name date in Greek Orthodox Christianity is October 10). The sources of this female name are located in the ancient Greek and Roman literature. In Theocritus’ Idylls, Amaryllis was wandering in the woods, and the Roman poet Virgil wrote
Lucius Afranius (poet) any of the quoted fragments of Afranius, proposed to translate the sentence "if only he hadn't polluted his plots with disreputable love affairs (conducted) by boys", something which Quintilian perhaps thought unsuited to the moralising tone of Roman comedies. Afranius wrote many comedies. The titles of forty-two of his plays are still preserved, along with associated fragments and quotations: Lucius Afranius (poet) Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Afranius' comedies described Roman scenes and manners (the genre called "comoediae togatae") and the subjects were mostly taken from the