| Nicknames |
| Over the years I have been given a number of nicknames (some funny some not) and I decided to list them here for historical reasons so that they are not forgotten. |
| Colonel: this nickname I had during early primary school and it was simply denoting my rank during school war games. |
| Gatos: this was my nickname during high school and was first given to me by my friend Mikis Zesiou. Literally, gatos means "cat" in Greek but unfortunatelly my naming as such had nothing to do with my feline qualities. It is simply a shortening of my surname G(rigor)atos. |
| Gregory: this one was given to me during the IB by our English teacher Mr Cook. It is again derived by my surname and he used it as it was easier than my first name Dionysios. |
| Dionysos: another one from IB times. This time it was invented by Carolina who prefered to call me by the name of the Greek God Dionysos instead of my proper name Dionysios which means "devoted to Dionysos". Giannos Veslemes also called me by that name. |
| Dionos: this is just a shortening of my name concocted by my brother Constantinos. |
| Eggman: a nickname given to me by flatmate Spyros during our stay at the Stamford Street Halls. It is based on my affinity for eggs. |
| Dag: another one from Stamford Street. This one is quite complicated. One night, I left a message outside Neil Stone's door signing it with my initials in Hebrew: DG. Unknowingly to me, I had just written the Hebrew word "Dag" which means "fish" and the nickname stuck. |
| Denjinder: Spyros and Neil are behind this one as well. Unfortunatelly, for reasons of political correctness I will not explain how it came about. |
| DJ: Nothing to do with disc-jockeying. Simply Zeeshan was bored of saying Denjinder and he shortened it to DJ, much to my general annoyance. |
| Smith: During a trip through Europe together with my brother we bumped on a group of travelling Aussies. Since Dionysios and Constantinos was too complicated for them to pronounce they decided to call us Smith and Jones, me being Smith. |
| Hercules: This one is from year three of medical school. Apparently, our PRHO Emma Proctor was so impressed I had an ancient Greek name she decided to call me by a different ancient Greek name (?). Anyway. |
| Moose: You have to ask Justine Heard about this one. Apparently, I turn into a moose at some point during the day, and apparently all this is very funny. Oh, dear... |
| Eurimedon: This is my alias from the Ancient Sites society. |
| Cephalonian: My internet name. |