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.
