prosopographicadj.
/ˌprɒsə(ʊ)pəˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˌprɑsəpəˈɡræfɪk/ Of or relating to prosopography and its historiographic methods; = prosopographical adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [adjective] > dealing with history > type of
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prosopographic1908
1908 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 29 361 The text is followed by explanatory notes, chiefly of a prosopographic nature.
1930 Antiquity 4 526 During the period from the 4th. century to the Roman rehandling of the site a series of dedicatory inscriptions, mostly of the latter 1st. and 2nd. century a.d., accumulated. These Mr. Woodward describes with much prosopographic detail.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 81 190 Of the 159 inscriptions, 100 either bear dates or can be dated within comparatively narrow limits by prosopographic or historical evidence.
2001 Classical Rev. 51 449 Artisan workshops, attitudes to death, prosopographic studies..all these and more must be touched on and illuminated by such a study as this.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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