- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Additional Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction <i>Eθνoς</i> and <i>Γένoς</i>
- 1 Ethnics, Ktetics, and Topics: the Grammatical Terminology
- 2 Ethnic Formations in Theory and Practice
- 3 Ethnics in Public and Private Use
- 4 Servile Ethnics and Metic Ethnics
- 5 Expanded Ethnics
- 6 Name-Changes and ‘Posthumous’ Ethnics
- 7 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics
- 8 Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
- 9 Associative Adjectives and Verbs
- 10 Eponymous Coin-Names
- 11 Ethnics as Personal Names
- 12 The Decline in the Use of the Ethnic
- 13 Stephanus of Byzantium’s Vocabulary
- 14 Stephanus’ Sources: the Tradition of <i>ἐθνικά</i>
- 15 After Stephanus
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics, as recorded by Stephanus and others<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 2 Table of Comparison of Sicilian Coin-Ethnics and Corresponding Ethnics in Stephanus
- Appendix 3 Roster of Stephanus’ Principal Quoted Sources
- Appendix 4 An Anonymous Byzantine List<sup>1</sup>
- Index A Ethnics
- Index B Entries in Stephanus
- Index C General Index
Eponymous Coin-Names
Eponymous Coin-Names
- Chapter:
- (p.209) 10 Eponymous Coin-Names
- Source:
- Greek Ethnic Terminology
- Author(s):
P. M. Fraser
- Publisher:
- British Academy
The ktetics of certain Greek cities were in wide circulation from an early date, with reference either to the coins of the cities or to the standard weights and values of their coinage, as used by other cities. The most familiar of these are the Aeginetan and Athenian, and later the Rhodian, all of which appear in a wide variety of sources, and in particular in the weights and measures assigned to votive offerings of precious metals, including coinage, in temple-inventories, notably those of Athens and Delos, and in the long temple-accounts for the work carried out at Delphi in the middle of the fourth century. The ktetic in -ικός/η/όν was regularly used in this context, both in documentary and literary usage.
Keywords: ktetics, Greek cities, coins, Aeginetan coinage, Athenian coinage, Rhodian coinage, Delphi, precious metals
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Additional Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction <i>Eθνoς</i> and <i>Γένoς</i>
- 1 Ethnics, Ktetics, and Topics: the Grammatical Terminology
- 2 Ethnic Formations in Theory and Practice
- 3 Ethnics in Public and Private Use
- 4 Servile Ethnics and Metic Ethnics
- 5 Expanded Ethnics
- 6 Name-Changes and ‘Posthumous’ Ethnics
- 7 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics
- 8 Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
- 9 Associative Adjectives and Verbs
- 10 Eponymous Coin-Names
- 11 Ethnics as Personal Names
- 12 The Decline in the Use of the Ethnic
- 13 Stephanus of Byzantium’s Vocabulary
- 14 Stephanus’ Sources: the Tradition of <i>ἐθνικά</i>
- 15 After Stephanus
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics, as recorded by Stephanus and others<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 2 Table of Comparison of Sicilian Coin-Ethnics and Corresponding Ethnics in Stephanus
- Appendix 3 Roster of Stephanus’ Principal Quoted Sources
- Appendix 4 An Anonymous Byzantine List<sup>1</sup>
- Index A Ethnics
- Index B Entries in Stephanus
- Index C General Index
