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Onomatologos - Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews (Hardcover)
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Onomatologos - Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews (Hardcover)
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onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent
lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of
words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of
papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recently retired
long-serving editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( LGPN
): a 'collector of names'. The LGPN , conceived by Peter Fraser,
has had as its primary aim the documentation on a geographical
basis of the personal names attested between the earliest use of
the Greek alphabet (c. 750 BC) and the early seventh century AD
throughout the Hellenic and hellenized world, wherever the Greek
language and script was used. The 55 contributions to this volume
reflect well the breadth of LGPN itself, extending to all points of
the compass far beyond the Greek heartlands bordering the Aegean
sea, as well as the wide range of disciplines to which the study of
personal names can be applied. Besides their honorific purpose, it
is intended that the contributions will further advance this field
of study, revealing some of the potential that has been unlocked by
the systematic documentation of the evidence, mainly from
inscriptions and papyri, that has accumulated over the last
century. The papers presented here amply demonstrate the value of
this raw material for linguists and philologists, students of Greek
and Latin literature, epigraphists, papyrologists, numismatists and
prosopographers, as well as social historians with broader
interests in the geographical and chronological distribution of
personal names.
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