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Old and new worlds in Greek onomastics /

Other Authors: Matthews, E.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy ; no. 148
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Elaine Matthews
  • Mythological and heroic names in the Onomastics of Atrax (Thessaly) / Jean-Claude Decourt and Athanasios Tziafalias
  • The twelve tribes of Atrax: a lexical study / Laurence Darmezin and Athanasios Tziafalias
  • Thessalian personal names and the Greek lexicon / José-Luis García Ramón
  • The Ptolemaic garrison of Hermoupolis Magna / Peter M. Fraser
  • Was there an anthroponymy of Euboian origin in the Chalkido-Eretrian colonies of the West and of Thrace? / Denis Knoepfler
  • Thracian personal names and military settlements in Hellenistic Bithynia / Thomas Corsten
  • Greek reinterpretation of Iranian names by folk etymology / Rüdiger Schmitt
  • Iranian names and the presence of Persians in the religious sanctuaries of Asia Minor / Stephen Mitchell
  • Semitic name-use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias Stele inscriptions / Margaret H. Williams
  • The ambiguous name: the limitations of cultural identity in Graeco-roman Syrian Onomastics / Maurice Sartre.Persians in the religious sanctuaries of Asia Minor / Stephen Mitchell
  • Semitic name-use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias Stele inscriptions / Margaret H. Williams
  • The ambiguous name: the limitations of cultural identity in Graeco-roman Syrian Onomastics / Maurice Sartre.