30.2576, Books: Changing Names: Parker (ed.)

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:26:51
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Changing Names: Parker (ed.)

 


Title: Changing Names 
Subtitle: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics 
Series Title: Proceedings of the British Academy  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/changing-names-9780197266540 


Editor: Robert Parker

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197266540 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 105


Abstract:

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 father's 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'.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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