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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’.
9.00 Welcome
9.15 Torsten Meissner, "Greek or Minoan? Names and Naming Habits in the Aegean Bronze Age"
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.”
11.45 Athanasios Rizakis, “Acculturation in the Greco-Roman East: Cultural and Legal Implications of the Use of Roman Names.”
2.30 Sylvain Destephen, "Global Christianisation and Local Onomastics : Rise and Decline in late Antiquity."
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.
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
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?"
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.
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