Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology : Theory and Practice II

by: Zucker, A. Le Feuvre, C. Chriti, M.

Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology
Theory and Practice II
Edited by: Arnaud Zucker , Claire Le Feuvre and Maria Chriti

About this book
This volume on ancient Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature. It continues a collective work (begun in a first volume under the same title) of reflection on, and valorization of the significance, development and impact of the Greek etymologizing thought. The three sections illustrate the variety of approaches to the same object, which was much more than a technical way of studying language for Greek writers. Contributions focus on the functions of etymology as they were intended by the authors according to their own aims. The wide range of genres and authors and the interplay between theoretical reflection and applied practice demonstrate the importance of etymology in Greek culture. The studies proposed here show how versatile the uses of etymology are in ancient texts, appearing both technical and inspired, literary and philosophical, serious and playful, lexicological and conceptual. Part of them deals with the link and difference between etymology and etiology. The work is of special interest to scholars on etymology in ancient Greek scholarship and on more general issues in lexicology, semiology, and folk-etymology.

Author / Editor information
Arnaud Zucker, Côte d?Azur University, Nice, France; Claire Le Feuvre, Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Maria Chriti, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Preface

Arnaud Zucker, Claire Le Feuvre and Maria Chriti
Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Tables

Introduction

Arnaud Zucker, Claire Le Feuvre and Maria Chriti
Part I: Linguistic Issues
The Philosophy of Etymology in the Περὶ ἐτυμολογιῶν of Orion of Thebes

Maria Chriti and Elias Tsolakopoulos
Multiple Etymologies: Plural, Alternative, Complementary Etymologies

Claire Le Feuvre
The Concepts of ?Barbarism? and ?Solecism? in the Byzantine Etymologica

Simone Fiori
Part II: Etymology and Etiology
Etymology and Cosmological Revisionism in Pherecydes of Syros

Elsa Bouchard
Etymology and the Rewriting of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo in Apollonius Rhodius 2.669–719

Athanassios Vergados
Etymology as Explanation in Hellanicus of Lesbos? Fragments

Theodosios Polychronis
Apollodorus in Pergamum, or the Reconciliation of Opposites

Andrea Filoni
Etymologies in the Margins: Etymological Practices in the Scholia on Apollonius? Argonautica

Lisa Doyle
Etymology as a Teaching Tool for Learning Geography: Eustathius of Thessalonica?s Parekbolai on Dionysius Periegetes

Paula Caballero Sánchez
Celebrating the Hidden Essence of the Gods: The Etymology of Theonyms as a Source of Divine Revelation in Proclus? Commentary on the Cratylus

Claudia Gianturco
Part III: Literary and Playful Use of Etymology
The Role of Etymology in the Formation of a Symbol: The Fourth Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Eleni Peraki-Kyriakidou
The Opening Riddle of Plato?s Cratylus

Ineke Sluiter
Ridentem dicere uerum: Etymology and Humor in Varro and Plutarch

Jared Hudson
Etymological Wordplay: Greek Philology as an Important Mediation between Greek and Latin Poetry of Erudition

Cécile Margelidon
List of Contributors

Index Notionum/Rerum

Index Nominum

Index Verborum

Index Locorum

Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology : Theory and Practice II

by: Zucker, A. Le Feuvre, C. Chriti, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783111572505 / 978-3-11-157250-5
• ISBN-03: 3111572501 / 3-11-157250-1
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025