- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Additional Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Eθνoς and Γένoς
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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 ἐθνικά -
15 After Stephanus - Conclusion
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Appendix 1 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics, as recorded by Stephanus and others1 -
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 List1 -
Index A Ethnics -
Index B Entries in Stephanus -
Index C General Index
After Stephanus
After Stephanus
- Chapter:
- (p.313) 15 After Stephanus
- Source:
- Greek Ethnic Terminology
- Author(s):
P. M. Fraser
- Publisher:
- British Academy
The epitomised Stephanus is the only text of an Ethnika surviving from antiquity. Consequently we cannot speak of his successors in the same way that he himself may be regarded as successor of Oros, or at a further remove, of Alexander Polyhistor or Herennius Philon. There survive a number of unnamed quotations regarding ethnic forms in various Etymologica and elsewhere, which sometimes provide more information than the corresponding entries in Stephanus, but it is a manifest oversimplification to suppose that all these entries derive from the full text of Stephanus. Stephanus and the Epitome were subsequently used by a few Byzantine writers, notably by Constantine Porphyrogennetus and the Continuators of Theophanes, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and above all, though last in time, by Eustathius in the twelfth.
Keywords: Epitome, Ethnika, ethnic forms, Etymologica, Constantine Porphyrogennetus, Eustathius
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Additional Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Eθνoς and Γένoς
-
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 ἐθνικά -
15 After Stephanus - Conclusion
-
Appendix 1 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics, as recorded by Stephanus and others1 -
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 List1 -
Index A Ethnics -
Index B Entries in Stephanus -
Index C General Index
