Women's Names, Part Deux
In reading through Barbara Olsen's Women in Mycenaean Greece, I managed to pick up some more authentic Late Bronze Age Mycenaean women's names that I hope will be of some use to authors writing in this period.
Thebeia
Purra (Pyrrha?)
Philagra
Keremeia
Amphiera
Huamia
Itamo
Phoinikeia
Luktia
Perieia
Malamena
Philista
Luktraia
Eratara
Aiwaia
Marraia
Smila (?)
Myrtilis
Philona
Psoleia
Thalamika
There are many names, both male and female, in the tablets that have not been normalized: that is, not fleshed out from their Linear B abbreviations into the form that these people would actually have used. Particularly at Knossos, where a great many names appear to be of Minoan origin, and where conventions in Minoan nominative, gendered endings and overall usages aren't understood due to the fact that the Minoan language hasn't been deciphered.