Selloi
The Selloi (
Hellenes lived there as well.[2] According to Homer, they were priests of the Dodonian Zeus.[3] Classicist and linguist Steve Reece has traced the Homeric name Selloi Σελλοί back to a historical tribe named Helloi Ἑλλοί (related to Hellas, Hellenes, etc). During the oral period of epic transmission one of Homer's bardic predecessors misheard a formulaic expression in which the name was embedded and metanalyzed "Helloi" as "Selloi."[4]
See also
- Greeks (names)
- Names of the Greeks
References
- OCLC 1119608064.
- Meteorologica, Book 1 Part 14
- ^ "King Zeus, lord of Dodona, god of the Pelasgi, who dwellest afar, you who hold wintry Dodona in your sway, where your prophets the Selloi dwell around you." Homer, Iliad, book 16, 233–235.
- ^ Reece, Steve. "Whence the Selloi of Dodona?" in Steve Reece, "Homer's Winged Words" (Leiden: Brill, 2009) 201-215.
Further reading
- Van Windekens, Albert J. (1961). "The Selloi at Dodona". In: Names: a Journal of Onomastics, 9:2, pp. 91-94. DOI: 10.1179/nam.1961.9.2.91