Greek Ethnic Terminology (Lexicon 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 quotations in later sources). At the heart of the volume is a study of the sources which lie behind an enigmatic but important treatise, which survives only in epitome: the Ethnika of the grammarian Stephanus of Byzantium. This suppliment to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names is the final work of its founding editor. Introduction : Ethnos And Génos -- Pt. I, Grammtical And Linguistic Aspects. Ethnics, Ktetics, And Topics : The Grammatical Terminology ; Ethnic Formations In Theory And Practice -- Pt. Ii, The Uses Of The Ethnic. Ethnics In Public And Private Use ; Servile Ethnics And Metic Ethnics ; Expanded Ethnics ; Name-changes And Posthumous Ethnics ; Hellenistic Eponymous Cities And Ethnics ; Ambiguous And Variable Ethnics ; Associative Adjectives And Verbs ; Eponymous Coin-names ; Ethnics As Personal Names ; The Decline In The Use Of The Ethnic -- Pt. Iii, Stephanus Of Byzantium And After. Stephanus Of Byzantium's Vocabulary ; Stephanus' Sources : The Tradition Of E̓thniká ; After Stephanus -- Conclusion -- Appendices. Hellenistic Eponymous Cities And Ethnics, As Recorded By Stephanus And Others ; Table Of Comparison Of Sicilian Coin-ethnics And Corresponding Ethnics In Stephanus ; Roster Of Stephanus' Principal Quoted Sources ; An Anonymous Byzantine List. By P.m. Fraser. Supplement To The Lexicon Of Greek Personal Names. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Text In English With Ancient Greek Words. "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]