Name and Identity

Selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean

von Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo

226 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: International
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9781407360973
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.03.2024
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd
• Herausgegeben von: Anamarija Kurili¿, Cristina de la Escosura Balbás