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The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) traces every bearer of every name, drawing on a huge variety of evidence, from personal tombstones, dedications, works of art, to civic decrees, treaties, citizen-lists, artefacts, graffiti etc.: in other words, from all Greek literary sources, documentary sources (inscriptions and papyri), coins, and ...
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There were five main personal name types in Greece: [7] Demosthenes is compounded from two ordinary Greek roots (a structure at least as old as Proto-Indo-European): [8] demos "people" and sthenos "strength".
The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names is a project to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names from the 8th Century BC to the late Roman Empire. Ancient Greek names provide crucial evidence to the historian.
The aim is to elucidate the meaning of the ancient Greek personal names listed in the database. LGPN contains approximately 36,000 different Greek or hybrid names (including variants), while other names written in the Greek alphabet derive from other linguistic origins.
Personal names reflect the concerns and values of a society. This is particularly true of the ancient Greeks who, in forming their names, exploited the richness and inventiveness of their language, adapting, combining and re-combining nouns, adjectives and verbs to create new forms reflecting features of their landscape, and the values of their ...
Collects and publishes all ancient Greek personal names, drawing on the full range of written sources from the 8th century B.C. down to the late Roman Empire.
31 mar 2016 · The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names is a project to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names from the 8th Century BC to the late Roman Empire. Ancient Greek names provide crucial evidence to the historian.
