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Jul 24, 1999 This week's theme Eponyms This week's words orwellian berserk macadam mansard stakhanovite euhemerism argonaut Internet Anagram Server I, Rearrangement Servant May I try your name? Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg euhemerism euhemerism (yoo-HEE-muh-riz-uhm, -HEM-) noun A theory attributing the origin of the gods to the deification of historical heroes. [After Euhemerus, fourth-century B.C. Greek philosopher.] "The Euhemerism of later scholiasts derived the name from a king Adrastos, who was said to have been the first to build a temple to Nemesis, and so the power thus worshipped was called after his name." Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound: Part II., Great Works of Literature, 1 Jan 1992. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. -Stephen Hawking

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