- 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
Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
- Chapter:
- (p.179) 8 Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
- Source:
- Greek Ethnic Terminology
- Author(s):
P. M. Fraser
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses ambiguous and individual variable ethnics. Although differentiated and ambiguous, place-names and their ethnics are especially a feature of the Hellenistic age, the phenomenon is also associated with some of the earliest of Greek cities. The phraseology used to differentiate the homonymous cities themselves varied slightly in both literary and epigraphical texts in one of three ways: (a) by the use of the regional ktetic or ethnic; (b) by the use of the genitive of the city or region; (c) by the use of prepositions.
Keywords: ambiguous ethnics, individual variable ethnics, place-names, Hellenistic age, regional ethnic, regional ktetic, genitive, propositions
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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
