![]() ![]() Otherwise, Hephaistos was not a terribly important deity in Doric-Aeolian populations. The only area where Haphēs-based names appear in any quantity, Boeotia, also had an important cult related to the god. There is virtually no overlap, except at the Panhellenic site of Delphi, and in a few colonies around the Black Sea.įurthermore, cult for the god Hephaistos –long recognized as a non-Greek borrowing– was popular primarily in Attic-Ionian and “Pelasgian” regions, precisely the same areas where we find Hephais-root names. Spelled with an /eta/, these names are almost exclusively Attic-Ionian, while Haphēs-based names, spelled with an alpha, are Doric-Aeolian, and much fewer in number. An epigraphical survey (with digital mapping component) of Greece and Magna Graecia reveals a pattern as to where Hephais-based names appear, up through the second century BCE. ![]()
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