A lexicon of Greek personal names / edited by P. M. Fraser, E. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, P. M., editor.

Matthews, E., editor.

Series:

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Greece--Dictionaries.

Names, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press, 2010.

Language Note:

Modern Greek (1453-)

Summary:

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a comprehensive listing of all named individuals from the ancient Greek-speaking world. The information needed has been compiled from all written sources, literary, epigraphical, papyrological, and numismatic, within a chronological range from the eighth century BC to approximately 600 AD; the geographical limits match the use of the Greek language in antiquity, from Asia Minor to the Western Mediterranean, the Black Sea toNorth Africa. With the present volume, LGPN moves into Asia Minor (modern Turkey), to the areas of Pontos, Bithynia, Mysia,

Contents:

A LEXICON OF GREEK PERSONAL NAMES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS OF SOURCES USED; OTHER ABBREVIATIONS; REVERSE INDEX OF NAMES IN VOLUME VA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed December 1, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-157323-X

OCLC:

930059083