Greek ethnic terminology
by Fraser, P. M., (Peter Marshall)
fromLexicon of Greek personal names
by Fraser, P. M., (Peter Marshall)
fromLexicon of Greek personal names
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].
This aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians. It is the people of any society who are its constituents, and only when we know who they were and what they did can that society be properly inv…
This aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians. It is the people of any society who are its constituents, and only when we know who they were and what they did can that society be properly inv…
"The aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians."--BOOK JACKET. "By accumulating a list of all known Aitolians, their origins, parentage, their place in the society, and any other details disco…