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Toponyms in Strabo's Geography

Map of the world according to Strabo
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Contents



1. Prologue


2. Stabo’s toponyms by place


3. Taxonomy of toponyms

3.1 First taxonomy
3.1.1 Endings in -os
3.1.2 Endings in –s
3.1.3 Toponyms in –ssa or –si
3.1.4 Toponyms in –ra
3.1.5 Toponyms in –mna
3.1.6 Rest of endings
3.1.7 Examples of ambiguity
3.2 Second taxonomy
3.2.1 Toponyms in –sos and -si
3.2.2 Toponyms in –nth
3.2.3 Toponyms in –ra
3.2.4 Toponyms in –na
3.2.5 Toponyms in –quos
3.2.6 Rest of themes

4. Analysis

4.1 Replacement vs. Continuity
4.2 Successive suffixation
4.3 Transformations
4.3.1 Reversals
4.3.2 Omissions/Additions
4.3.3 Duplications
4.3.4 Replacements
4.3.5 Regression
4.4 Toponyms considered ‘classically’ Greek
4.5 Cretan toponyms
4.6 Toponyms of Attica
4.7 Names of Islands
4.8 ‘Primordial’ names
4.9 Is it ‘pre-Greek’ or ‘Old-Greek?’
4.10 Thracians and Carians
4.11 The Phoenician-Minoan connection
4.12 A Northern (IE) origin of Greek religion

5. Further discussion

5.1 Kurgan Hypothesis
5.1.1 Mounted horses
5.1.2 Wheels and chariots
5.2 Krahe’s hydronyms
5.3 Neolithic Continuity
5.4 The European Megalithic
5.5 The Younger Dryas phenomenon

6. Appendices

6.1 Cultural assimilation
6.1.1 The phenomenon of acculturation
6.1.2 A memetic origin of language
6.1.3 Modern relative gene research
6.2 Symbolic representations
6.2.1 Archetypal origins
6.2.2 The horse and the wheel
6.2.3 The bear and the wolf
6.2.4 Psychic twins
6.3 Fundamental symmetries
6.3.1 Satem- Centum symmetry
6.3.2 Non- locality in evolution

7. Conclusions


8. Epilogue


9. Notes






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