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Originally Posted by HarryT
Considering that the man's name was "Marcus Antonius", "Antony" would seem to be a more sensible "Anglicisation" than "Anthony"  . |
Ms. McCullough explains somewhere in her lengthy prefaces/addenda to the books in the series her reasons for doing this or that regarding spelling, naming conventions and even the timing of some events (she tries to be accurate regarding known historical facts and when she is not, she argues quite persuasively actually that the evidence is misleading).