Zoe

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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

family name

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

  1. ↑ Plato, Phaidon 105 cd
  2. ↑ Dionysius v. Halicarnass 3, 17
  3. ^ Aristotle, De partibus animalium II 10
  4. ^ Plato, The State VII 521 a
  5. ↑ Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  6. ↑ Zyklon Zoe on the naturgewalten.de page ; accessed on January 30, 2018.
  7. ^ Residents of Tikopia survived Zyklon . In: Die Welt , January 4, 2003.