The Brill dictionary of ancient Greek
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Greek ethnic terminology
by Fraser, P. M., (Peter Marshall)
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This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the ancient Greek vocabulary used to describe the local origins of individuals. It sheds much new light on ancient grammarians, and other ancient writers (many of them 'lost' in the sense that they survive only in quotati…
"This essay is ... an analysis both of documentary evidence for Greek ethnic terminology, based on a combination of documentary and general literary evidence, and the evidence of Stephanus of Byzantium's epitomised Ethnika."--Page [ix].
J.O. Urmson's The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary contains some five hundred alphabetically arranged entries, each aiming to provide useful information on a particular word used by Greek philosophers. The book includes a wealth of quotations ranging from the fifth century BC to t…
