Description: Changing Names : Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics, Hardcover by Parker, Robert (EDT), ISBN 0197266541, ISBN-13 9780197266540, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Changing Names investigates, in relation to the ancient Greek world, the ways in which preferences in personal name-giving change: through shifts in population, cultural contact and imperialism, the popularity of new gods, celebrity status of individuals, increased openness to external
influence, and shifts in local fashion.
Several major kinds of change due to cultural contact occurred: Greek names spread in regions outside Greece that were subject to Greek cultural influence (and later conquest), while conversely the Roman conquest of the Greek world led to various degrees of adoption of the Roman naming system; late
in antiquity, Christianisation led to a profound but rather gradual transformation of the name stock. Individuals in culturally mixed societies sometimes bore two names, one for public or official use, one more domestic; but women of non-Greek origin were more likely to stick with indigenous names.
Structural changes (such as the emergence of the English surname) did not occur, though in late antiquity an indication of profession tended to replace the fathers name as a secondary identifier; in some regions second names became popular, perhaps in imitation of the longer Roman naming
formulae. The volume is arranged partly thematically, partly through regional case studies (from within and beyond old Greece). Individuals who change their names (typically slaves after manumission) are also considered, as is the possibility that a name might change its meaning.
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Book Title: Changing Names : Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomas
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Changing Names : Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Etymology
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.8 Oz
Author: Robert Parker
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy Ser.
Format: Hardcover
