Conference: Greek Onomastics East of the Mediterranean

Greek Onomastics East of the Mediterranean

Naming and Culture in the Roman Near East and the Greek Far East

A two-day conference of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University

28-29 June 2019

Convenors: Ted Kaizer, Robert Parker and Jean-Baptiste Yon

Friday 28 June

9.30am                        welcome

10am               Kathryn Stevens (Durham University)

Greek Names in Hellenistic Babylonia

11am               tea & coffee

11.30am          Jan Tavernier (Université catholique de Louvain)

Greek Names in Iran. Some Thoughts

12.30pm          lunch

2pm                 Pierre-Louis Gatier (Maison de l’Orient, Lyon)

The Onomastics of the Ruling Elites in the Hellenistic Cities of Northern Syria

3pm                 Charles Crowther (The Queen’s College, Oxford) & Margherita Facella (Università di Pisa)

From Antiochus to Abraham: Personal Names and Ethnic Groups in (Northern) Commagene

4pm                 tea & coffee

4.30pm            Tal Ilan (Freie Universität Berlin)

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and a Lexicon of Jewish Names: Two Name-Corpora; Two Concepts

5.30pm            drinks reception

Saturday 29 June

10am               Julien Aliquot (Maison de l’Orient, Lyon)

Greek Onomastics in Berytus

11am               tea & coffee

11.30am          Jean-Sébastien Balzat (LGPN, Oxford)

What’s in a Cognomen? Typology of Cognomina in the Roman East

12.30pm          lunch

2pm                 Nathanael Andrade (Binghamton University)

What’s in a Double Name in the Roman Near East?

3pm                 Jean-Baptiste Yon (Maison de l’Orient, Lyon)

The End of Pagan Onomastics. The Christianization of Personal Names in Late Roman Syria

4pm                 tea & coffee

4.30pm            Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (LGPN, Oxford)

Considerations for the Study of Syriac Onomastics

Attendance is open to all without charge but those wishing to attend should please inform Robert.Parker@new.ox.ac.uk.

Conference "Onomastic Change in the Greco-Roman World"

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/announcements/index.html

Conference Announcement

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names is holding a conference in the Ioannou School, 66 St Giles, Oxford on April 5 and 6, 2016, on ‘Onomastic Change in the Greco-Roman World’.

The provisional programme is:

Tuesday, April 5

9.00 Welcome

9.15 Torsten Meissner, "Greek or Minoan? Names and Naming Habits in the Aegean Bronze Age"

10.15 Christof Schuler, “Lycian, Persian, Greek, Roman: Chronological Layers and Structural Developments in the Onomastics of Lycia."

      

11.15 Coffee
      

11.45 Denis Knoepfler, "Les quatre saisons de l'onomastique béotienne (et plus particulièrement thespienne)."

      

12. 45 Lunch break
      

2.30 Miltiades Hatzopoulos, "Aigeai and Pella: an Onomastic Tale of Two Cities in Macedonia."

      

3.30 Stephen Lambert , "Demokrates the Democrat?"

      

4.30 Tea
      

5.00 Jean-Sebastien Balzat, “The Adoption of Roman Onomastics in the Greek Cities."

       Wednesday, April 6

9.15 Heikki Solin, “On the Survival of Greek Personal Names in Magna Graecia under Roman Rule.”
      

10.15 Dan Dana, “Onomastic Interactions: Greek and Thracian names.”

      

11.15 Coffee
      

11.45 Athanasios Rizakis, “Acculturation in the Greco-Roman East: Cultural and Legal Implications of the Use of Roman Names.”

      

12.45 Lunch break
      

2.30 Sylvain Destephen, "Global Christianisation and Local Onomastics : Rise and Decline in late Antiquity."
      

3.30 Jaime Curbera, ‘What Satyr-Names can tell us about Greek Onomastics and Vocabulary. ’

       4.30 Tea

5. 00 Thomas Corsten, “Name Changes by Individuals.”

     All are welcome to attend without charge, but please contact robert.parker@new.ox.ac.uk if you plan to attend.  

For accommodation, try http://conference-oxford.com/bb-self-catering.