Zeus en famille. Regards onomastiques sur un système de parenté

Abstract

Greek inscriptions, especially the de dications, sometimes associate Zeus with one or more of his children, or with one or another of his wives, particularly Hera. The onomastic sequences may express, or even emphasise, the ties that bind the members of Zeus’s family. However, upon closely examining these epigraphic sources and organising them into series, as the MAP database allows, we notice that there are significant differences, both in the choice of “lexicon” and in the “syntax”, between Athena, Apollo, and Hera, to name just these three examples. He aim of this study, which is limited to epigraphic material, is therefore to identify similarities and differences in order to understand the structural elements related to the kinship system built around Zeus in the inscriptions, over the long period extending from the Archaic to the Roman era.