Name and Identity: Selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean: 3161 (International) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1407360973 ISBN 13: 9781407360973

Publisher: BAR Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

This volume analyses the importance of onomastics and its impact on the ancient world (i. e. Greek, Roman, Graeco-Roman, and various indigenous onomastic systems) for the construction of identities, societies, and ways of thinking. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective, including elements of linguistics, epigraphy, history, Roman law, theatre, anthropology, and archaeology. The volume explores the presence of linguistic calques and semantic transfers in ancient anthroponymy, the use of "speaking" names, the avoidance or circumventing based on the genre, the legal aspects of onomastics structures, and the acculturation processes that defined individual or collective identities through onomastics and naming. "Name and Identity" delves into cases from the Greek Aegean, Pre-Roman and Roman Italy, the wider Roman world, the Iberian Peninsula, and South-Eastern Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1407360973
• ISBN 13: 9781407360973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: De La Escosura Balbás Cristina, Kurilic Anamarija, Rallo Giuseppe Eugenio