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ΜΕΤΟΝΟΜΑΣΙΑ AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DYNASTIC POLITICS IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
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ΜΕΤΟΝΟΜΑΣΙΑ AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DYNASTIC POLITICS IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
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Katherine Berzon 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9703-5722
Oleg Gabelko
ORCID: 0000-0001-8321-9195
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Volume 78 Issue 2 (78)
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234-256
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The article considers all the examples of changes of name in the Hellenistic royal dynasties known from the sources (and partly reconstructed on the basis of indirect data). The authors attempt to explore the goals, meaning and significance of such actions. The practice of accepting the throne name directly upon accession to the throne was widely used by the Achaemenids, and in the Hellenistic world it spread after the change of name of Arrhidaeus, the half-brother of Alexander the Great, to Philip (III) in 323 BC, when he was proclaimed king. A change of name was carried out more often directly by the assuming the royal title in order to give one of the “main” throne names to one or another member of the royal house, who was not initially intended to be a king, but for some reason received the right to the throne. This is most clearly seen in the dynastic history of Cappadocia and Pontus – apparently, in accordance with the Achaemenid patterns. Sometimes a change of name was used in the situation of interference in the internal affairs of other states with the aim to put on the throne a member of the “outer” royal house, changing its name to the traditional one for the dynasty of that country. Finally, some cases of metonomacy (especially in the Seleucid state) reflected the collisions of a specific situation and could be associated with a wide variety of factors.

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Hellenistic word, royal dynasties, practices of name-giving, change of name
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