There's probably something in Eleanor Dickey's “Greek forms of address”, as there's an explanation about this for Latin in her book on the same topic for Latin.

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Has anyone written about female names in ancient Greek? Either there's not a lot or my google scholar skills are HIGHLY lacking today. Suggestions #ClassicsTwitter #AncMedTwitter?

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