The first attestation of the term Smintheus occurs as an anthroponym in Mycenaean tablets from Knossos and Thebes dating to Late Helladic/Late Minoan IIIB (ca. 1340/1330-1190/1190 a.C). From a morphological point of view, it is a noun in -eus from the nominal stem sminth- (sminthos, “mouse”), probably anhellenic as the suffix (-nth-) suggests. As it is a famous epiclesis of Apollo, the ancient literary, scoliographic and lexicographic sources provide conflicting etymological explanations of Smintheus, as derived from the toponym Sminthe/Sminthos or from the appellative sminthos that is - in its turn - explained as the Mysian or Cretan equivalent of the Greek word mous. As for the Mycenaean anthroponym, it seems more plausible to regard si-m...
The name of the Etruscan king Mezentius seems to be etymologically similar to Menzana, the Messapic ...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
For the Hellenistic and Roman societies, marble and miscellaneous materials made of marble have alwa...
The first attestation of the term Smintheus occurs as an anthroponym in Mycenaean tablets from Knoss...
The aim of this paper is to show that the mycenaean anthroponymy could provide an indication, althou...
The Greek noun ὄνθος has thus far defied a satisfactory etymological explanation. The semantics, des...
In the present article I analyse some of the sign groups appearing in the notorious Minoan libation ...
The epithet Pythios/Pythion, unequivocally denoting the cult of Apollo of Delphi, came to have a ver...
The phenomenon of Apollo's association with field and cattle needed an explanation. There is a tende...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
Reassessing work by Spanish scholars Martín S. Ruipérez and Mercedes Aguirre de Castro, this paper e...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
The majority of Mycenaean Greek vocabulary, perhaps 60-70%, as preserved on the Linear B tablets con...
The author puts forward the hypothesis that the 'scapegoat' ritual had been introduced to Greece und...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
The name of the Etruscan king Mezentius seems to be etymologically similar to Menzana, the Messapic ...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
For the Hellenistic and Roman societies, marble and miscellaneous materials made of marble have alwa...
The first attestation of the term Smintheus occurs as an anthroponym in Mycenaean tablets from Knoss...
The aim of this paper is to show that the mycenaean anthroponymy could provide an indication, althou...
The Greek noun ὄνθος has thus far defied a satisfactory etymological explanation. The semantics, des...
In the present article I analyse some of the sign groups appearing in the notorious Minoan libation ...
The epithet Pythios/Pythion, unequivocally denoting the cult of Apollo of Delphi, came to have a ver...
The phenomenon of Apollo's association with field and cattle needed an explanation. There is a tende...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
Reassessing work by Spanish scholars Martín S. Ruipérez and Mercedes Aguirre de Castro, this paper e...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
The majority of Mycenaean Greek vocabulary, perhaps 60-70%, as preserved on the Linear B tablets con...
The author puts forward the hypothesis that the 'scapegoat' ritual had been introduced to Greece und...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
The name of the Etruscan king Mezentius seems to be etymologically similar to Menzana, the Messapic ...
On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), k...
For the Hellenistic and Roman societies, marble and miscellaneous materials made of marble have alwa...