I nomi di persona in -ᾱ(ϝ)ον- nella poesia epica arcaica

This article provides a morphological analysis of all Greek personal names containing the suffix ᾱ(ϝ)ον and highlights the fact that, in archaic epic poetry, it designates either Greek heroes from mainland Greece, especially from Thessaly, or Trojans and their allies. This distribution was likely influenced by the fact that the old Greek suffix ᾱ(ϝ)ον was employed to approximate the Luwian ethnic suffix -wanni- or its later development *-unni-.