- 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
Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics
Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics
- Chapter:
- (p.167) 7 Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics
- Source:
- Greek Ethnic Terminology
- Author(s):
P. M. Fraser
- Publisher:
- British Academy
Chapter 6 showed the long history of metonomasy, which is preserved in a number of entries in documentary evidence and particularly in Stephanus, relating to cities and communities of the Classical world. It also investigated the reverse process, by which ethnics of cities that had for one reason or another ceased to exist as independent bodies continued to be used, particularly (but not exclusively) in peripheral regions such as Egypt. This chapter looks forward to the new world, particularly the early Hellenistic age, which brought into being new urban settlements, with politically eponymous titles.
Keywords: Hellenistic age, urban settlements, eponymous titles, metonomasy
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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
