Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Mythological and Heroic Names in the onomastics of Atrax (Thessaly) The Twelve Tribes of Atrax: a Lexical Study Thessalian Personal Names and the Greek Lexicon the Ptolemaic Garrison of Ptolemais Hermiou Was there an Anthroponymy of Euboian Origin in the Chalkid-Eretrian Colonies of the West and of Thrace? Thracian Personal Names and Military Settlements in Hellenistic Bithynia Greek Re-interpretation of Iranian Names by Folk Etymology The Persian Presence in the Religious Sanctuaries of Asia Minor Semitic Name-Use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias Stele Inscriptions The Ambiguous Name: the Limitations of Cultural Identity in Graeco-Roman Onomastics

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• Authors: Elaine (EDT) Matthews
• Assisted by: Elaine Matthews (Editor), Elaine (Director Matthews (Editor), Matthews Elaine (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2008
• EAN: 9780197264126
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726412-6
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours