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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

For Boris Johnson, Homer is where the heart is

Boris Johnson Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson Northampton
Boris Johnson and wife Carrie arrive for the official welcome ceremony during the G7 summit in Schloss Elmau, Germany in June 2022.
Carrie and Boris Johnson (pictured in 2022) this week announced the birth of their third child, Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson. Photograph: Reuters

It can probably be safely assumed that Boris Johnson has foisted the middle name Odysseus on his latest child because he identifies with classical Greece’s clever, wily hero (Report, 11 July). The Romans took a dimmer view: they saw Odysseus as a deceitful villain. And Dante put him in the Inferno for disregarding necessary bounds and dishonestly using his eloquence to persuade others to follow him to destruction.
Catherine McLoughlin
London

• Has anyone else thought that Boris Johnson naming his newborn son Frank is ridiculously ironic?
Robin Dransfield
Liskeard, Cornwall

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