Thursday, June 13, 2019

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.

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