100 Historical Things, Number 28

So, I mentioned that I'm into onomastics, didn't I? Onomastics being the study of names from various different angles. Well, I also just found an interesting article on dog names in ancient GreeceBeing overworked I'm going to have to stop there rather than discussing ancient animal names in more detail - but rest ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 17

OK, to start with, just to clarify: onomastics is the study of names.

Now, I enjoy onomastics. It's useful in what I do, because I don't only study scripts and languages, I'm also very much invested in studying the people writing and speaking those scripts and languages. (I did talk a little bit about this already ( Read more... )