Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence

193 Pages·2001·0.81 MB·English

by  Simon Hornblower, Elaine Matthews

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY · 104
GREEK PERSONAL NAMES
Their Value as Evidence
Edited by
SIMON HORNBLOWER & ELAINE MATTHEWS
Published for THE BRITISH ACADEMY
by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Contents
Notes on Contributors v
Abbreviations vii
Introduction
The Lexicon: ELAINE MATTHEWS 1
This book: SIMON HORNBLOWER 9
1. Greek Personal Names and Linguistic Continuity 15
ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES
2. Hippolytos and Lysippos: Remarks on some Compounds
in I< ppo-, -ippoy 41
LAURENT DUBOIS
3. Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion 53
ROBERT PARKER
4. Oropodoros: Anthroponymy, Geography, History 81
DENIS KNOEPFLER
5. ‘L’histoire par les noms’ in Macedonia 99
MILTIADES HATZOPOULOS
6. Foreign Names in Athenian Nomenclature 119
CHRISTIAN HABICHT
7. Personal Names and the Study of the Ancient Greek Historians 129
SIMON HORNBLOWER
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8. Mirabilia and Personal Names 145
MICHAEL CRAWFORD
9. Ethnics as Personal Names 149
P. M. FRASER
Ad lectorem 158
KLEARCHOS II
Name Index 159
General Index 172
Figures & Tables
J.-A. Letronne 3
Table of Attic theophoric names 58
Map of the territory of Eretria 85
Table of names of Macedonians in IG I3 89 (fifth-century treaty) 104
Table of names of priests in SEG 36, 626 (fourth-century list) 105
Table of names of infantry officers from Beroia (third-century list) 107–8
Table of ethnic forms as names 155–6
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Notes on Contributors
Michael Crawford is Professor of Ancient History at University College London
and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a member of the Lexicon of
Greek Personal Names Committee.
Anna Morpurgo Davies is Professor of Comparative Philology in the
University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. In February–
March 2000 she gave the Sather lectures at the University of California at
Berkeley on ‘Names and Naming in Ancient Greece: Language, Culture and
Continuity’. She is a member of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Committee.
Laurent Dubois is Directeur d’ études à l’ Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes,
section IV, La Sorbonne, Paris. His research interests are dialectology, epig-
raphy, morphology, onomastics, and comparative grammar. He has pub-
lished collections of the Greek dialect inscriptions of Arkadia (1986), Sicily
(1989), Euboea (1995) and Olbia (1996).
P. M. Fraser is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow
of the British Academy.
Christian Habicht is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British
Academy. His special interests include the history of the hellenistic period
and Greek epigraphy. Among his recent publications are Pausanias’ Guide to
Ancient Greece (2nd edn, Berkeley, 1998) and Athens from Alexander to Antony
(Cambridge MA, 1997).
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos is Director of the Research Centre for Greek
and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His
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research interests are in the fields of epigraphy, linguistics, institutional his-
tory, and the historical geography of Macedonia. His recent publications
include Macedonian Institutions under the Kings, 2 vols (Athens, 1996) and
Inscriptions of Lower Macedonia, fasc. I, Inscriptions of Beroia (Athens,
1998) (in Greek with L. Gounaropoulou).
Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at University
College London. He has so far published two volumes (1991, 1996) of a
projected three-volume Thucydides commentary, in which he seeks to give
proper weight and coverage to onomastic evidence. He has been a member
of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Committee since 1979.
Denis Knoepfler is Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is a leading authority on Euboea, Boeotia and
other regions; he is the author (with R. Étienne) of Hyettos de Béotie et la
chronologie des archontes fédéraux entre 250 et 171 avant J.-C. (BCH Suppl.
3, 1976).
Elaine Matthews is co-Editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, and a
Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of
Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written Miasma:
Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Oxford, 1983) and
Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford, 1996), and is at work on a sequel to
the latter book, perhaps to be called Polytheism and Society at Athens. He is
a member of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Committee.
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Abbreviations
BE J. and L. Robert and others, Bulletin Épigraphique (in Revue des Études
grecques, 1938– )
Bechtel, HP F. Bechtel, Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur
Kaiserzeit (Halle, 1917)
CEG P.A. Hansen, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca, vol. 1, saeculorum VIII–V a.
Chr. n.; vol. 2, saeculi IV a. Chr. n. (Berlin, 1983, 1989)
FD Fouilles de Delphes 1– (Paris, 1909– )
Hatzopoulos, Macedonian Institutions M.B. Hatzopoulos, Macedonian Institutions
under the Kings, 2 vols (Meletemata 22; Athens, 1996)
Hatzopoulos-Loukopoulou, Recherches M.B. Hatzopoulos and L. Loukopoulou,
Recherches sur les marches orientales des Téménides, i (Meletemata 11;
Athens, 1992)
Letronne, Oeuvres choisies Oeuvres choisies de J.-A. Letronne, assemblées, mises en
ordre et augmentées d’un index par E. Fagnan (Paris, 1881–5: 1 sér.
Égypte ancienne, 2 vols, 1881; 2 sér. Géographie et cosmographie, 2 vols,
1883; 3 sér. Archéologie et philologie, 2 vols, 1883–5)
LGPN A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names I, The Aegean Islands, Cyprus and
Cyrenaica, eds P.M. Fraser and E. Matthews (Oxford, 1987); II,
Attica, eds M.G. Osborne and S.G. Byrne (Oxford, 1994); IIIA, The
Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia, eds P.M.
Fraser and E. Matthews (Oxford, 1997); IIIB, Central Greece, eds
P.M. Fraser and E. Matthews (forthcoming, 2000)
LIMC Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (Zurich and Munich,
1981–97)
LSAG2 L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, 2nd edn, with sup-
plement by A.W. Johnston (Oxford, 1990)
ML R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions
to the End of the Fifth Century BC, revised edn (Oxford, 1988)
OCD3 S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds), Oxford Classical Dictionary,
3rd edn (Oxford, 1996)
OGS O. Masson, Onomastica Graeca Selecta, ed. C. Dobias and L. Dubois,
2 vols (Paris, 1990)
Osborne, Naturalization 3–4 M. J. Osborne, Naturalization in Athens, 3-4 (Brussels,
1983)
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viii Abbreviations
PA J. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, 2 vols (Berlin, 1901)
Pape-Benseler W. Pape and G.E. Benseler, Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen
(Braunschweig, 1863–70)
Parker, Athenian Religion R. Parker, Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford, 1996)
Robert, OMS L. Robert, Opera Minora Selecta: Épigraphie et antiquités grecques, 7
vols (Amsterdam, 1969–90)
SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, eds J.E.E. Hondius and A.G.
Woodhead, 1–25 (Leiden, 1923–71); eds H.W. Pleket and R.S. Stroud,
26–7 (Alphen, 1979–80), 28– (Amsterdam, 1982– )
SGDI H. Collitz, F. Bechtel and others, Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-
Inschriften, 4 vols (Göttingen, 1884–1915)
Sittig E. Sittig, De Graecorum nominibus theophoris (diss. Halle, 1911)
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Introduction
ELAINE MATTHEWS AND SIMON HORNBLOWER
Artem inveniendi cum inventis adolescere posse, statuere debemus
Bacon, Novum Organon finis
The Lexicon [E.M.]
THE SUGGESTION THAT PETER FRASER’S 80TH BIRTHDAY might be celebrated by
a colloquium devoted to exploring the value of Greek personal names came
from Simon Hornblower. It was an inspired suggestion, for by shifting the overt
focus of the event to a field of study to which he has devoted a large part
of his energies during the two last decades through the Lexicon of Greek
Personal Names, it cleared the way for the honorand not only to agree to be
honoured, but even, as the last paper in this volume shows, to contribute.
That the suggestion became reality is due in large part to the encourage-
ment of Peter Brown, the Secretary of the British Academy and a long-serving
member of the Lexicon Committee. With his encouragement, application was
made to the Meetings Committee of the Academy, which agreed that the
meeting should be adopted as a British Academy Colloquium. This duly took
place at the Academy on 11 July 1998, in a packed Lecture Room, before a
large and apparently indefatigable audience. Thanks are due to all partici-
pants, audience as well as speakers, for making the occasion all one could have
wished as a tribute to Peter Fraser; to the British Academy, and in particular
to Rosemary Lambeth, for the excellent arrangements and hospitality on the
day; and to James Rivington, Publications Officer of the Academy, who has
steered this volume of papers through to publication.
Like the colloquium from which it arose, this volume has the purpose of
honouring Peter Fraser by exploring the value of personal names in the
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