The Authentic Orthography
Trickster, Grandfather of Odysseus · The wolf himself
Why autolykos.com is the correct form
Αὐτόλυκος
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
AUTOLYCUS
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Autolykos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
autolykos.com → autolykos.com
The non-ASCII characters in Autolykos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Autolykos.
How autolycus becomes Autolykos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | o | Stress | Acute on omicron |
| 05 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 06 | y | → | y | Same | Same |
| 07 | c | → | k | Same | Kappa |
| 08 | u | → | o | Same | Omicron |
| 09 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Autolykos is classified as Tier-1
The Greek original Αὐτόλυκος contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Autolykos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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