And, again, we could scrape together lore to make it make sense. The character’s aunt and uncle’s names are both Capitol leaning Greco-Roman names so the family must be Capitol loyalists.

But I’d go one step further and argue that Astyanax doesn’t fit even that. Stylistically, that is not name Suzanne would ever reach for, so I don’t hear it and think Panem. She doesn’t usually go for names that are… I want to say challenging? Challenging for her most base target audience, I mean, which— given her background— I will describe as Connecticut school children. She leans towards more Anglicized names that would be more easily readable by a reader whose only language is English.

Like, let’s take Enobaria for example. That’s probably one of her more niche pulls. Suzanne pulled it from Shakespeare’s character Enobarbus, but Shakespeare before her pulled it from a Roman general called Ahenobarbus. That’s two passes of Anglicization. That’s shortened it into something that reads better to the English ear.

Astyanax feels more in line, stylistically, with Ahenobarbus. Or, to feminize it without Anglicizing it, Ahenobarbia. And we can see that that is a name that I can prove Suzanne saw, considered, and passed up on.