A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia
Author: P. M. Fraser
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1997-09-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0198152299

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The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world, drawing on all available evidence from the earliest times to about AD 600. The present volume, III.A, presents the onomastic material from the Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia, continuing the series begun with Volume I, The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, and Volume II, Attica.

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.B: Central Greece: From the Megarid to Thessaly

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.B: Central Greece: From the Megarid to Thessaly
Author: P. M. Fraser
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198152934

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The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world, drawing on all available evidence from the earliest times to about AD 600. This volume presents the onomastic material from Central Greece.

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia
Author: P. M. Fraser
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-09-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780198152293

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The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world, drawing on all available evidence from the earliest times to about AD 600. The present volume, III.A, presents the onomastic material from the Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia, continuing the series begun with Volume I, The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, and Volume II, Attica.

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Author: T. Corsten
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 019157323X

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A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a comprehensive listing of all named individuals from the ancient Greek-speaking world. The information needed has been compiled from all written sources, literary, epigraphical, papyrological, and numismatic, within a chronological range from the eighth century BC to approximately 600 AD; the geographical limits match the use of the Greek language in antiquity, from Asia Minor to the Western Mediterranean, the Black Sea to North Africa. With the present volume, LGPN moves into Asia Minor (modern Turkey), to the areas of Pontos, Bithynia, Mysia, the Troad, Aiolis, Ionia, and Lydia. Asia Minor is particularly interesting since it differs from most other regions covered so far in its ethnic and cultural diversity. Personal names are known in abundance from almost all cultures to be found in this area, and they therefore play a prominent role in the study of ethnicity and acculturation.

Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean

Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean
Author: Kathryn Lomas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9047402669

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This collection of essays, in honour of Professor B.B. Shefton, provides an innovative exploration of the culture of the Greek colonies of the Western Mediterranean, their relations with their non-Greek neigbours, and the evolution of distinctive regional identities.

The Names of Homeric Heroes

The Names of Homeric Heroes
Author: Nikoletta Kanavou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110421976

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The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time of ancient commentators to the present day. The book begins with an introduction to the particularly complex set of factors that affect all efforts to interpret Homeric names. The main chapters are structured around the character and action of selected heroes in their Homeric contexts (in the case of the Iliad, a heroic war; the Odyssey chapter encompasses more than one planes of action). They offer a survey of modern etymologies, set against ancient views on names and naming, in order to reconstruct (as far as possible) the reception of significant names by ancient audiences and further to shed light on the parameters surrounding the choice and use of personal names in Homer. An Appendix touches on the underexplored career of Homeric personal names as historical names, offering data and a preliminary analysis.

The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia

The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia
Author: Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004273859

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Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon. Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Author: Peter Marshall Fraser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1987
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198705824

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This is the seventh volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names to be published, a work which offers comprehensive documentation of named individuals in the Greek-speaking world in the period from c. 700 BC to 600 AD, drawn from all sources (predominantly written in Greek and to a lesser extent in Latin). It is the second of three volumes that comprise the personal names attested in Asia Minor. This particular volume is concerned with its southern coast, incorporating the ancient regions of Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, and Cilicia, and thus completes coverage of the coastal regions. The volume documents more than 44,500 individuals who between them bore in excess of 8,400 different names. In contrast to those parts of Asia Minor facing the Aegean, Propontis, and Black Sea, there was little Greek settlement along the southern coast. So, in this volume particular interest attaches to the very large number of non-Greek names originating in the languages of the indigenous peoples of these regions - Carian, Lycian, Sidetic, and Pisidian - all of them descended from the Hittite-Luwian languages spoken in Anatolia in the second and early first millennia BC. The volume provides the raw material that allows us to see how indigenous names gave way first to Greek and later to Latin names, and how the pace of these changes varies from one region to another as one aspect of those processes of acculturation labelled as 'hellenization' and 'Romanization'. It contains a detailed introduction which addresses the definition of each of the regions and their cultural identity in terms both of geography and language and onomastics. It also guides the user through some of the problems of topography, dialect, and the treatment of non-Greek names, as well as providing some detailed statistics that point to interesting regional patterns.

Greek Personal Names

Greek Personal Names
Author: Elaine Matthews
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197262163

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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.