Greek Personal Names : Their Value as Evidence (Proceedings of the British Academy, 104)

by: Hornblower, S. Matthews, E.

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Greek personal names : their value as evidence

Authors:Simon Hornblower, Elaine Matthews 

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction, Elaine Matthews and Simon Hornblower
Greek Personal Names and Linguistic Continuity, Anna Morpurgo Davies
Hippolytus and Lysippos: Remarks on Some Compounds with Hippo-, -ippos, Laurent Dubois
Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion, Robert Parker
Oropodoros: Anthroponymy, Geography, History, Denis Knoepfler
L'histoire par les noms in Macedonia, Miltiade Hatzopoulos
Foreign Names in Athenian Nomenclature, Christian Habicht
Personal Names and the Study of the Ancient Historians, Simon Hornblower
Mirabilia and Personal Names, Michael Crawford
Ethnics as Personal Names, Peter Fraser
Index
 

Series:
Proceedings of the British Academy, 104

184 pages ; 24 cm

Greek Personal Names : Their Value as Evidence (Proceedings of the British Academy, 104)

by: Hornblower, S. Matthews, E.

• ISBN-13: 9780197262160 / 978-0-19-726216-0
• ISBN-03: 0197262163 / 0-19-726216-3
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

Price: 55,90 EURO

1 copy in stock