Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics
Seiten
2007
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726412-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726412-6 (ISBN)
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.
This volume provides an interpretative guide to using a fundamental resource for the study of the ancient Greek world. Personal names are a statement of identity, a personal choice by parents for their child, reflecting their own ancestry and family traditions, and the religious and political values of the society to which they belong. The names of the ancient Greeks, surviving in their tens of thousands in manuscripts and documents, offer a valuable insight into ancient Greek society.
The essays collected here examine how the Greeks responded to new environments. It draws out issues of identity as expressed through the choice, formation and adaptation of personal names, not only by Greeks when they came into contact with non-Greeks, but of others in relation to Greeks, for example Egyptians, Persians, Thracians, and Semitic peoples, including the Jewish communities in the diaspora. Grounded in the 'old' world of Greece (in particular, Euboia and Thessaly), the volume also reaches out to the many parts of the ancient world where Greeks travelled, traded and settled, and where the dominant culture before the arrival of the Greeks was not Greek.
Reflecting upon the progress of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, which has already published the names of over a quarter of a million ancient Greeks, this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of the language, literature, history, religion, and archaeology of the ancient Greek world.
This volume provides an interpretative guide to using a fundamental resource for the study of the ancient Greek world. Personal names are a statement of identity, a personal choice by parents for their child, reflecting their own ancestry and family traditions, and the religious and political values of the society to which they belong. The names of the ancient Greeks, surviving in their tens of thousands in manuscripts and documents, offer a valuable insight into ancient Greek society.
The essays collected here examine how the Greeks responded to new environments. It draws out issues of identity as expressed through the choice, formation and adaptation of personal names, not only by Greeks when they came into contact with non-Greeks, but of others in relation to Greeks, for example Egyptians, Persians, Thracians, and Semitic peoples, including the Jewish communities in the diaspora. Grounded in the 'old' world of Greece (in particular, Euboia and Thessaly), the volume also reaches out to the many parts of the ancient world where Greeks travelled, traded and settled, and where the dominant culture before the arrival of the Greeks was not Greek.
Reflecting upon the progress of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, which has already published the names of over a quarter of a million ancient Greeks, this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of the language, literature, history, religion, and archaeology of the ancient Greek world.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.11.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Proceedings of the British Academy ; Vol 148 |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 figures |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 583 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-726412-3 / 0197264123 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-726412-6 / 9780197264126 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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