The conference “Greek Onomastics East of the Mediterranean: Naming and Culture in the Roman Near East and the Greek Far East” will take place in Oxford.
Convenors: Ted Kaizer, Robert Parker and Jean-Baptiste Yon
Programme
Friday 28 June
9.30am welcome
10am Kathryn Stevens (Durham University)
Greek Names in Hellenistic Babylonia
11am tea &coffee
11.30am Jan Tavernier (Universitécatholique 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 (FreieUniversität 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