Announcements

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, at Wadham College. The theme on July 11 was Naming in Anatolia and on July 12 Roman Phrygia. Details of speakers and subjects can be found here.

Elaine Matthews formally retired in 2009 as Editor of LGPN after 35 years with the project. The Lexicon owes an enormous debt of gratitude to her for her untiring and often groundbreaking work on the study of Greek Personal Names, and the creation of the associated digital research resources and web-based services.

In recognition of the great contribution Elaine Matthews has made to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Onomatologos, a volume of fifty-five papers, edited by Richard Catling and Fabienne Marchand, was published by Oxbow Books in July 2010.

Greek Ethnic Terminology by P. M. Fraser was published by Oxford University Press in November 2009. This suppliment to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names is the final work of its founding editor who died on September 15th 2007. More information about the life and work of Peter Fraser can be found here.

Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics. British Academy Proceedings 148. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, was published in November 2007. These are the papers from the second LGPN Colloquium "Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics", held in Oxford in March 2003.

New members of staff:

In June 2009 Dr. Édouard Chiricat joined us from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. In addition to his work on Pamphylia for Volume VB of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Dr. Chiricat is also involved with the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents on the Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua Volume XI project (MAMA XI), preparing the texts for publication online in EpiDoc format.

In April 2010 Jean-Sébastien Balzat, previously Macmillan-Rodewald student at the British School at Athens, joined as a Research Assistant working on Western Lycia for Volume VB.

New premises:

In February 2007, LGPN moved to the new Stelios Ioannou School for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies at 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU.

Full details of our new address and telephone numbers can be found on the Contact page.

Additions:

LGPN V.A

Coastal Asia Minor: Pontos to Ionia; Published March 2010, by Oxford University Press.

LGPN IIA

LGPN II (Attica) is under regular revision by Sean Byrne of Melbourne University. In view of the large amounts of new data coming to light for Athens, there are no immediate plans for a second print edition, but since 2004 Attic Addenda and corrigenda and Additional Bibliography have been posted by Sean to the LGPN web site, most recently in April 2009.

From time to time, Sean sends the complete LGPN IIA data, which LGPN processes through its systems, enabling the production of revised name lists, indexes and statistics. The most recent version is April 2007, on the basis of which the following have been posted:

May 2007: downloadable name indexes (reverse and forward); the indexes of LGPN II (1987) are also retained in case they are useful.

August 2007: LGPN IIA names were added to the Search facility.

September 2008: statistics, names and places were added and can be accessed here.

Online

May 2009: Preface and Introduction to Volume I, Introductions to Volume II, Volume IIIA, Volume IIIB and Volume IV.

January 2008: details of LGPN IT Strategy: XML and TEI.

30 January 2004. "Making the Book" on the creation of LGPN's first database (republished from the Introduction to LGPN I)

December 2005: Bibliography, Forward Index and Reverse Index for all LGPN volumes made available in 'LGPN Online', Downloads.

24 March 2005: Forward Indexes to all LGPN volumes made available in Publications.

This version of the web site of LGPN was launched in October 2003. Thanks are due to: Frances Condron, IT Consultant, for the technical redesign; Maggy Sasanow of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, for advice on design, and for regular updating of the content; Richard Ashby, of the Classics faculty, for implementation. Comments, and suggestions for additions, are always welcome.

Email lgpn@classics.ox.ac.uk