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Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia
Robert . Ed(S): Parker
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Hardback. Ancient Anatolia was a region where indigenous peoples mixed with conquerors and incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Names from all these sources intermingled, and it is by studying them that the cultural interactions and changes and resistances that occurred can be illuminated. Editor(s): Parker, Robert. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 figures, including 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 2AHA; CFF; HBJ; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Proceedings of the British Academy
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197265635
SKU
V9780197265635
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