A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

Jean-Sébastien Balzat is currently a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and an editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, having been a member of the editorial staff since 2010. He read History and Classics at the Université catholique de Louvain and holds an MA from the University of Nottingham and a doctorate from Newcastle University; he has published mainly in the fields of ancient Greece and Asia Minor.

Richard W. V. Catling read Literae Humaniores at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate, subsequently working on a doctorate in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. He has been a member of the editorial staff of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names since 1990 and has also published the results of several archaeological field projects. His principal research interests lie in the history and archaeology of the Aegean world in the first half of the first millennium BC.

Édouard Chiricat was a Researcher at the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names from 2009 until 2016 and is currently an Academic Visitor at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford. He is a former foreign student at the École Normale Supérieure and Junior Research Fellow at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, both in Paris, and has taught Greek and Roman history in several French universities.

Thomas Corsten completed his PhD in Classics in 1984 before taking up research and teaching positions in Cologne, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Lyon, Leiden, Oxford, and, most recently, Vienna, where he is Professor of Greek History and Epigraphy. He joined the editorial staff of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names in 2000, initially as an assistant editor then as an editor, and is also one of the editors of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Brill).

This is the eighth volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names to be published, a work which offers comprehensive documentation of named individuals in the Greek-speaking world in the period from c. 700 BC to 600 AD, drawn from all sources (predominantly written in Greek and to a lesser extent in Latin). It is the third of three volumes that comprise the personal names attested in Asia Minor: this particular volume is concerned with its interior, incorporating the ancient regions of Phrygia, the Kibyratis/Kabalis, Milyas, Pisidia, Galatia, Lykaonia, Isauria, Kappadokia, Paphlagonia, Pontos, and Armenia Minor.

In contrast to its coastal regions, inland Asia Minor was untouched by Greek settlement until after the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Greeks and Romans were but two comparatively late entrants into this multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural world. Comparatively little of the documentation predates the period of the Roman Empire but the surviving sources document a large number of non-Greek names originating in the languages of the indigenous peoples, which are of particular interest. Some of them are descended from the Hittite-Luwian languages spoken in Anatolia in the second and early first millennia BC, while others reveal the influence of a foreign ruling class, whether the Persians in Kappadokia or the Celts who settled in what became known as Galatia in the third century BC.

This volume provides the raw material that allows us to see how Greek and, later, Italian names entered into the name stock of these indigenous peoples, and also the varying resilience of native naming practices from one region to another as one aspect of those processes of acculturation labelled as 'hellenization' and 'Romanization'. It documents more than 42,500 individuals bearing in excess of 7,300 different names and includes a detailed Introduction which addresses the definition of each of the regions and their cultural identity, guides the user through some of the problems of geography and language, and provides detailed statistics that point to interesting regional patterns.

This is the eighth volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and the third of three volumes that comprise the personal names attested in Asia Minor. This particular volume is concerned with its interior, incorporating the ancient regions of Phrygia, Milyas, Pisidia, Galatia, Kappadokia, Paphlagonia, Pontos, and Armenia Minor, among others.