E Matthews ed.,Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 148

Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics

Edited by Elaine Matthews

Price: £35.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-726412-6
Publication date: 29 November 2007
170 pages, 2 figs., 234x156 mm
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy number Vol 148
Blurb from OUP


Description
Sheds light on the identity politics of the ancient Greek world
This volume provides an interpretative guide to using a fundamental resource for the study of the ancient Greek world. Personal names are a statement of identity, a personal choice by parents for their child, reflecting their own ancestry and family traditions, and the religious and political values of the society to which they belong. The names of the ancient Greeks, surviving in their tens of thousands in manuscripts and documents, offer a valuable insight into ancient Greek society.

The essays collected here examine how the Greeks responded to new environments. It draws out issues of identity as expressed through the choice, formation and adaptation of personal names, not only by Greeks when they came into contact with non-Greeks, but of others in relation to Greeks, for example Egyptians, Persians, Thracians, and Semitic peoples, including the Jewish communities in the diaspora. Grounded in the 'old' world of Greece (in particular, Euboia and Thessaly), the volume also reaches out to the many parts of the ancient world where Greeks travelled, traded and settled, and where the dominant culture before the arrival of the Greeks was not Greek.

Reflecting upon the progress of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, which has already published the names of over a quarter of a million ancient Greeks, this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of the language, literature, history, religion, and archaeology of the ancient Greek world.

Readership: Scholars and students of the ancient Greek world, and onomastics.

Authors, editors, and contributors
NB a pdf file of the first page of each article, or the entire article, is available at British Academy site. Follow this link, and click in "Article."

Elaine Matthews Introduction 1-7

Jean-Claude Decourt & Athanasios Tziafalias Mythological and Heroic Names in the Onomastics of Atrax (Thessaly) 9-20

Laurence Darmezin & Athanasios Tziafalias The Twelve Tribes of Atrax: a Lexical Study 21-28

José-Luis García Ramón Thessalian Personal Names and the Greek Lexicon 29-67

Peter M Fraser The Ptolemaic Garrison of Hermoupolis Magna 69-85

Denis Knoepfler Was there an Anthroponymy of Euboian Origin in the Chalkido-Eretrian Colonies of the West and of Thrace? 87-119

Thomas Corsten Thracian Personal Names and Military Settlements in Hellenistic Bithynia 121-133

Rudiger Schmitt Greek Re-interpretation of Iranian Names by Folk Etymology 135-150

Stephen Mitchell Iranian Names and the Presence of Persians in the Religious Sanctuaries of Asia Minor 151-171

Margaret H Williams Semitic Name-Use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the Dating of the Aphrodisias Stele Inscriptions 173-197

Maurice Sartre The Ambiguous Name: The Limitations of Cultural Identity in Graeco-Roman Syrian Onomastics 199-232


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Source BMCR books received March 2008

REVIEW of A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume 52 (2002). Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 905. ISBN 90-04-15508-2. €168.00 / $250.00.

Reviewed by Georges Rougemont, Maison de l'Orient Jean-Pouilloux, Université Lyon 2 (georges.rougemont@mom.fr)
Word count: 723 words

Depuis les années 1920, le SEG apporte, sous la forme de volumes périodiques, des additions, des corrections et des compléments aux volumes publies des Inscriptiones Graecae (le corpus des inscriptions grecques publié à Berlin depuis plus de cent ans). Vigoureusement relancé à la fin des années 1970, doté d'une périodicité régulière, enrichi de précieux index, le SEG est devenu, avec le Bulletin épigraphique de la Revue des Études Grecques, dont les principes sont différents, l'un des deux outils de base pour établir une bibliographie en épigraphie grecque. Etc. at BMCR

REVIEW of Monika R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.02.53
Monika R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III. (KSB III). MPER XXIII, 3. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer). Munich and Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. viii, 276. ISBN 10: 3-598-78010-9. ISBN 13: 978-3-598-78010-3. €84.00.

Reviewed by Gesa Schenke, University of Cologne (gesa.schenke@uni-koeln.de)
Word count: 841 words

The third volume of the Koptisches Sammelbuch (hereafter KSB) appeared only two years after the second (2004), while the first volume was published in 1993. The accelerated pace of publication doubles the pleasure of receiving this indispensable tool for the study of Coptic documents. 1690 individual texts now appear on the pages of this series, a quasi-gold mine of every type of Coptic documentary text. As the editor mentions in the preface, there is already material selected for another volume, and to this we look forward. Etc. at BMCR

Today at the 13th Int'l Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Selected papers touching on Papyrology:

1.3. Non-Greek and Latin Epigraphy of the Roman Empire (Room 7, Ground Floor)

d. Hannah Cotton - Jonathan Price: "Semitic languages in the epigraphy of the Graeco-Roman Near East: the case of Judaea/Syria Palaestina."

1.6. Epigraphy and Information Technology (Lecture Room 2)

a. Charles Crowther (convenor):

c. Alan Bowman, Ruth Kirkham, John Pybus: "A Virtual Research Environment for epigraphy and papyrology."

Guide de l'épigraphiste 7e éd.

Table des matières

I. Traités, Initiations, Bibliographies
II. Choix d'inscriptions
III. Les inscriptions grecques jusqu'en 1453
IV. Les inscriptions latines jusqu'à l'époque mérovingienne
V. Catalogues de musées
VI. Recueils thématiques d'inscriptions grecques et latines
VII. Mise à jour des corpus et recueils
VIII. Études sur les inscriptions
IX. Épigraphies périphériques
1. Épigraphie minoenne et mycénienne, par Pierre Carlier
2. Langues d'Asie Mineure, par Georges Pinault
3. Épigraphie sémitique, par Bernard Delavault, Pierre Petitmengin et Françoise Briquel Chatonnet.
4. Épigraphie égyptienne et copte, par Laurent Motte et Laurent Coulon
5. Épigraphie iranienne, par Frantz Grenet et Xavier Tremblay
6. Inscriptions du roi Asoka, par Georges Pinault
7. Épigraphie italique et étrusque, par Dominique Briquel
8. Épigraphie en langues celtiques, par Pierre-Yves Lambert et Eugenio Luján
9. Épigraphie de l'Occident médiéval : IXe-XVe siècle, par Pierre Petitmengin
X. Études et bibliographie d'épigraphistes
XI. Congrès, Revues, Collections
Supplément
Index des auteurs
Index géographique
Index analytique
Cartes

424 p. ISBN 2-7288-0254-8. 190 FF. 28,97 Euros. Mai 2000.
Second tirage avec supplément : 428 p., septembre 2001.

A worthwhile notice of this publication at Current Epigraphy
Source: Papy-L