Old and new worlds in Greek onomastics
Matthews, EContributor
British Academy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
The names of the ancient Greeks, surviving in their tens of thousands, offer valuable insights into Greek society. This is an interpretative guide to the use of personal names as a resource for the study of both old Greece and the many other parts of the ancient world where Greeks traded and settled.
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The names of the ancient Greeks, surviving in their tens of thousands, offer valuable insights into Greek society. This is an interpretative guide to the use of personal names as a resource for the study of both old Greece and the many other parts of the ancient world where Greeks traded and settled.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Elaine Matthews -- Mythological and heroic names in the Onomastics of Atrax (Thessaly) / Jean-Claude Decourt and Athanasios Tziafalias -- The twelve tribes of Atrax: a lexical study / Laurence Darmezin and Athanasios Tziafalias -- Thessalian personal names and the Greek lexicon / José-Luis García Ramón -- The Ptolemaic garrison of Hermoupolis Magna / Peter M. Fraser -- Was there an anthroponymy of Euboian origin in the Chalkido-Eretrian colonies of the West and of Thrace? / Denis Knoepfler -- Thracian personal names and military settlements in Hellenistic Bithynia / Thomas Corsten -- Greek reinterpretation of Iranian names by folk etymology / Rüdiger Schmitt -- Iranian names and the presence of Persians in the religious sanctuaries of Asia Minor / Stephen Mitchell -- Semitic name-use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias Stele inscriptions / Margaret H. Williams -- The ambiguous name: the limitations of cultural identity in Graeco-roman Syrian Onomastics / Maurice Sartre.
Greek language
Names, Personal
Names, Greek
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