Name meanings: Hagrid

[qquinn13]

No: HPFGUIDX 46337

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., GulPlum <hpfgu at p...> wrote:
> I'm on a roll...
> 
> I didn't plan this to happen, but having written the messages about 
> "Voldemortist" and "Arabella Figg", I thought I'd take a look at 
> MuggleNet's "name origins" page to see what they've come up with 
and was 
> utterly astonished to see this one:
> 
> "Hagrid: Name and tale comes from greek myth. The ancient Hagrid 
from the 
> myth was the god of Jewels. This god was said to be the kindest of 
the 
> gods, but Hades framed him for the death of Piraeus's (the killer 
of 
> Medusa) son. Hagrid was banished from Olympus but Zues allowed him 
to stay 
> as the watcher of the animals. "
> 
> Where did they get "Piraeus" from? 

<snip>

Piraeus was a harbor for 5th C. BC Athens.  During the Greco-Persian 
wars, Themistocles either moved the main Athenian shipyards from 
Phaleron Bay to Piraeus, or vv.  (Don't recall for certain which but 
I think the former.)  In any case, the new harborage was instrumental 
in supporting the ships that helped win the war (the oracle's "wooden 
wall") and in developing Athens' role as a centre of culture in the 
centuries following.


- Quinn