Talk:Atossa
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Do not put crosses next to death dates for non-Christians! Not only is this disrespectful to non-Christians, but it is potentially offensive to Christians who do not want their symbols to be used for those who do not share their faith! And irksome to people like me who are obsessive about the proper categorizations of things.
Traditionally, you put a cross by a Christian, a Star of David by a Jew, and a Crescent & Star by the name of a Muslim when marking deaths. I do not know if there is a conventional symbol for Zoroastrian deaths (Atossa was most likely a Mazdean/proto-Zoroastrian), but I am looking. In the meantime we should dispense with the marker for this article. --Jpbrenna 06:39, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I have never, ever, ever seen a star of David or a crescent & star used as a symbol for death in the same way that the cross is. I'm also fairly certain that I've seen crosses for non-Christians, but I wouldn't stake any money on that. john k 8 July 2005 01:22 (UTC)
Ah, here we go, my Cambridge Shorter Medieval History features a genealogical table of the House of Constantine. It shows a cross for the death date of Constantius I, who was certainly not a Christian. john k 8 July 2005 01:23 (UTC)
