The Authentic Orthography
King of Thebes · Sorrow
Why pentheús.com is the correct form
Πενθεύς
The name in its original Greek form. Πενθεύς carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
PENTHEUS
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.
Pentheús
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
pentheús.com → xn--penthes-c2a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Pentheús are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Pentheús.
How pentheus becomes Pentheús
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | P uppercase |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | e same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | n same |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | t same |
| 05 | h | → | h | Same | h same |
| 06 | e | → | e | Same | e same |
| 07 | u | → | ú | Stress | Acute on u |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Pentheús is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Πενθεύς contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Pentheús behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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