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Product details:
- Edition number and title 104
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 14 December 2000
- ISBN 9780197262160
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 242x163x8 mm
- Weight 478 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 line drawing 0
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Short description:
Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put.
MoreLong description:
Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times.
The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put. These essays narrate the stories of political and social change revealed by the incidence of personal names and cast a fascinating light upon both the natural and supernatural phenomena which inspired them.
This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names.
This is an absolutely fascinating book ... It deserves a very wide readership; in fact anybody with an interest in Ancient Greek culture will read it and feel very richly rewarded More
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Greek Personal Names and Linguistic Continuity
- Hippolytus and Lysippos: Remarks on Some Compounds with Hippo-, -ippos
- Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion
- Oropodoros: Anthroponymy, Geography, History
- L'histoire par les noms in Macedonia
- Foreign Names in Athenian Nomenclature
- Personal Names and the Study of the Ancient Historians
- Mirabilia and Personal Names
- Ethnics as Personal Names
- Index
