Zoe
Zoe , Zoé or Zoë is a female given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Zoe ( ancient Greek ζωή ; Latin vita ) means life in Greek, more precisely "the simple fact of life that is common to all living beings" (i.e. plants, animals, people and gods). Being alive is justified by a soul. Inanimate things accordingly have no soul. But the term zoe can also designate a higher form of life that is more than just the mere preservation of the species. So z. B. a life in the civil service which strives to fulfill its purpose. This definition can also be found in Aristotle , who says that man was not only born to live, but for the sake of the good life (eu zen) , which he equates with happiness (eudaimonia) . With Plato the zoe is tied to a fate and can be lived well or badly. In Stoic philosophy the term zoe , in the sense of physical life, is extended to the whole cosmos. With the Stoics , however, people have to achieve the zoe kata physin (is identical to the term eu zen ) with the help of their own reason. In comparison, bios (also from ancient Greek ) means “the specific life that is peculiar to a group or an individual”.
name day
As a name day is May 2 Catholic, in Greece also the first Friday after Easter Sunday celebrated. They are memorial days of Saint Zoë .
Variants and Distribution
Zoe is particularly common in Anglo-Saxon countries as well as in Greece . The following variants are available:
- Zoé, Zoë
- Zoeé, Zooe, Zoo
- Zoey, Zooey, Zoye
- Zoa
- Soe, Soé
- Soey
- Zoja (Russian)
- Zoí ( modern Greek Ζωή )
Name bearers
Saints and rulers
- St. Zoë († 127 or 137), wife of Hesperus, Christian martyr in Attalia
- Zoe Karbonopsina (early 10th century), wife of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI.
- Zoe , Byzantine Empress (around 978-1050)
- Sofia Palaiologa (1448–1503), Byzantine princess, niece of the last emperor, Grand Duchess of Russia
First name
- Zoë (singer) , English pop singer Zoë Pollock ( Sunshine on a Rainy Day , 1990)
- Zoë Akins (1886–1958), American screenwriter and playwright
- Zoe Baker (* 1976), New Zealand swimmer.
- Zoë Bell (* 1978), New Zealand stunt woman and actress
- Zoe R. Cassavetes (* 1970), American actress, screenwriter and film director
- Zooey Deschanel (* 1980), American actress
- Zoe Droysen (1884–1975), German poet and writer
- Zoë Haas (* 1962), Swiss ski racer
- Zoe Hives (* 1996), Australian tennis player
- Zoë Jenny (* 1974), Swiss writer
- Zoe Kazan (* 1983), American actress and screenwriter
- Zoë Keating (* 1972), American cellist and composer
- Zoë Kravitz (* 1988), American actress
- Zoe Lee (* 1985), British rower
- Zoe Leonard (* 1961), American artist (photography and installation)
- Zoe Lofgren (* 1947), American lawyer, university lecturer and politician
- Zoe Luck (* 1995), German actress
- Zoë Tamerlis Lund (1962–1999), American actress
- Zoe Mazah , stage name Zoe (* 1975), German-Liberian singer
- Zoe McBride (* 1995), New Zealand lightweight rower
- Zoe McLellan (* 1974), American actress
- Zoe Perry (born 1983), American actress
- Zoe Rahman (* 1971), British jazz musician (piano, composition)
- Zoë Readhead (* 1946), British educator and psychologist
- Zoë Saldaña (* 1978), American actress and film producer
- Zoe Stevenson (* 1991), New Zealand rower
- Zoë Straub , stage name Zoë (* 1996), Austrian singer and actress
- Zoé Talon (1785–1852), confidante and mistress of the French King Louis XVIII.
- Zoe Tembo (born as Zoe Mumbi; died March 11, 2001), Zambian human rights activist
- Zoé Valdés (* 1959), Cuban writer
- Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), British actress
- Zoë Countess Wassilko von Serecki (1897–1978) Austrian parapsychologist and astrologer
- Zoe Weiland (* 1984), German actress
- Zoë Wicomb (* 1948), South African writer
family name
- Deborah Zoe (born 1972), American actress
- Muriel Zoe (* 1969), German singer-songwriter and painter
- Rachel Zoe (* 1971), American stylist
fiction
- Zoe is a literary figure in Gradiva by Wilhelm Jensen . It gained importance for psychoanalysis through Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensen's Gradiva (1907) by Sigmund Freud , who undertook the first analysis of a literary work.
- Zooey Glass in Franny and Zooey (1961) by JD Salinger
- The protagonist in Killing Zoe (1993) directed by Roger Avary, cast: Julie Delpy
- Zoey Redbird is the main character in the House of Night book series
- Zoey Brooks as the title character of the youth television series Zoey 101
- Zoë is an important character in Percy Jackson
- Dr. Zoe Hart in Hart of Dixie
- Zoe (German: Sina) is a character from the children's series Sesame Street .
- Zoe Ayamoto - character from the anime Digimon Frontier
- Zoë Maya Castillo - protagonist in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and co-protagonist in Dreamfall Chapters
stage name
- Gorilla Zoe (* 1979 or 1980, actually Alonzo Mathis ), American rapper
Others
In 2002, cyclone Zoe caused damage to islands in the South Pacific , such as Tikopia . At the time, Zoe was considered to be one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plato, Phaidon 105 cd
- ↑ Dionysius v. Halicarnass 3, 17
- ^ Aristotle, De partibus animalium II 10
- ^ Plato, The State VII 521 a
- ↑ Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- ↑ Zyklon Zoe on the naturgewalten.de page ; accessed on January 30, 2018.
- ^ Residents of Tikopia survived Zyklon . In: Die Welt , January 4, 2003.