Anatolian society: a joint conference, July 11-12, 2011

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and Monumenta Asia Minoris Antiqua projects held a joint conference in Oxford on July 11-12, 2011, hosted at Wadham College. The theme on July 11th was Naming in Anatolia and on July 12th it was be Roman Phrygia. Details of speakers and topics follow below.

The LGPN and MAMA projects are supported by the AHRC.

Conference organisers: Robert Parker and Peter Thonemann

Speakers and Topics:

Greek and Indigenous Names in Anatolia

Claude Brixhe (Nancy) - ‘L'onomastique anatolienne après L. Robert et L. Zgusta’

Craig Melchert (UCLA) – ‘Naming Practices in 2nd and 1st Millennium Western Anatolia’

Heiner Eichner (Vienna) – 'The hellenisation of indigenous names in different regions of Anatolia'

Christian Marek (Zürich) – ‘Kaiserzeitliches Kleinasien: Wohlstand und Namen’ (Imperial Asia Minor: Economic prosperity and names)

Alexandru Avram (Le Mans) – ‘Noms indigènes à Héraclée du Pont’

Jaime Curbera (Berlin) – ‘Ionic “Nicknames”’

Riet van Bremen (London) – 'From Aphrodisias to Alexandria via Hippoukome and Kaunos with Agroitas and Agreophon'

Mustafa Adak (Antalya) – ‘Names, ethnicity and acculturation in the Pamphylian-Lycian Borderland’

Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton/Oxford) – ‘Second thoughts on second names at Aphrodisias’

Roman Phrygia

Charlotte Roueché (London) - ‘From Aberdeen to Afyon: William Ramsay, William Calder and MAMA’

Barbara Levick (Oxford) - ‘In the Phrygian Mode’

Georgy Kantor (Oxford) - 'Law in Roman Phrygia: rules and jurisdictions'

Charles Crowther (Oxford) - 'The angareia dossier from Sülümenli (SEG XVI, 754)'

Thomas Corsten (Vienna) - 'Rural Phrygia and the Second Sophistic '

Edouard Chiricat (Oxford) - ‘Crypto-Christian inscriptions of Phrygia’

Stephen Mitchell (Exeter) - ‘An Epigraphic Probe into the Origins of Montanism’

Philipp Niewöhner (Istanbul) – ‘Phrygian Marble and Stonemasonry as Markers of Regional Distinctiveness in Late Antiquity’

Claude Brixhe - ‘L'onomastique phrygienne à l'époque romaine’

Email lgpn@classics.ox.ac.uk