Scholarly Name Reference
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Scholarly reference for Prōtesilaos
Πρωτεσίλαος
The name in its original Greek form. Πρωτεσίλαος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
PROTESILAUS
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.
Prōtesilaos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
prōtesilaos.com → xn--prtesilaos-r3b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Prōtesilaos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Prōtesilaos. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How protesilaus becomes Prōtesilaos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | Same |
| 02 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 03 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long omega |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 07 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 08 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 09 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 10 | u | → | o | Same | Omicron |
| 11 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Prōtesilaos is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Πρωτεσίλαος preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
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