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Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia (Hardcover)
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Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 191
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Ancient Anatolia was a region where many indigenous or at least
long-established peoples mingled with many conquerors or incomers:
Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Its rich and complex history
of cultural interaction is only spasmodically illuminated by
literary sources. Inscriptions, by contrast, abound and attest well
over 100,000 name-bearing inhabitants. Many of those names retain
regional associations, and when analysed with tact allow lost
histories and micro-histories to be recovered. This volume exploits
the huge possibilities for social and linguistic history being
created by the expansion of The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
into Anatolia. One topic is that of continuities and
discontinuities between the naming practices of the Hittites and
Luvians in the second millennium BC and those of the Greco-Roman
period. Several studies trace changing patterns of naming in
particular regions; this may reflect real changes in population,
but the need for sociological sensitivity is stressed, as the
change may lie rather in changing self-perceptions or preferred
self-identifications. The Anatolian treasure house of names can
also be used to illuminate the psychology of naming, the rise of
nursery nicknames to the status of proper names (and their
subsequent fall from favour), for instance, or the fascination with
exotic luxury items expressed in names such as Amethyst or Emerald,
or the fashion for 'second names' among the Greek-speaking elite.
The volume shows how, as has been said, the study of names is a
'paradigm case of the convergence of disciplines, where the history
of language meets social history'.
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