‘Greek Naming in Egypt’; Conference to be held on the 29th – 30th of March, organized by the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names in collaboration with Trismegistos. The Conference will be both in-person in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (66 St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU) and on Zoom. Attendance is open to all without charge, but those wishing to attend in person or on Zoom should send an email to chloe.colchester@classics.ox.ac.uk. The zoom link will be sent out the day before the conference.
‘Greek Naming in Egypt’ Program details (all UK times)
Tuesday, March 29
9.30 am welcome
10 am Yanne Broux (Leuven): ‘Greek names in Egypt: an overview based on Trismegistos People’.
11 am Tea & coffee
11.30 am Dorothy Thompson (Cambridge) and Willy Clarysse (Leuven), ‘Greek Names of Egypt’.
12.30 pm lunch
2 pm Adrienn Almásy-Martin (Oxford), ‘Phonetic variants of Greek names in Demotic: a survey based on LGPN data’.
3 pm Nico Dogaer (Oxford), ‘Hybrid names’.
4 pm tea & coffee
4.30pm Maren Schentuleit (Oxford), ‘Unisex Names’.
5.30 pm drinks reception
Wednesday, March 30
10 am Rachael Mairs (Reading) ‘Inter-generational change in naming practices’.
11 am tea & coffee
11.30 am Malcolm Choat (Macquarie), ‘Christian naming in Egypt’.
12.30 pm lunch
2 pm Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berlin), ‘Greek names in Coptic’.
3 pm Sylvie Honigman (Tel Aviv), ‘Jewish names in Egypt’.
4 pm tea & coffee
4.30 pm Roger Bagnall (New York) ‘Re-emergence of names from the classical past’.
5.30 pm Alan Bowman (Oxford), ‘Envoi’.
To read more on the expansion of Greek culture in Egypt see here.