Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Ancient Anatolia Was A Region Where Many Peoples Mingled: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Its Rich And Complex History Of Cultural Interaction Is Only Spasmodically Illuminated By Literary Sources. Inscriptions, By Contrast, Abound And Attest Well Over 100,000 Name-bearing Inhabitants. This Volume Exploits The Huge Possibilities For Social And Linguistic History Being Created By The Expansion Of The Lexicon Of Greek Personal Names Into Anatolia. One Topic Is That Of Continuities And Discontinuities Between The Naming Practices Of The Hittites And Luvians In The Second Millennium Bc And Those Of The Greco-roman Period. Several Studies Trace Changing Patterns Of Naming In Particular Regions. The Anatolian Treasure House Of Names Can Also Be Used To Illuminate The Psychology Of Naming. The Volume Shows How The Study Of Names Is A 'paradigm Case Of The Convergence Of Disciplines, Where The History Of Language Meets Social History'. Introduction / Robert Parker -- Anatolian Anthroponymy After Louis Robert ... And Some Others / Claude Brixhe -- Naming Practices In Second- And First-millennium Western Anatolia / H. Craig Melchert -- Indigenous Names In Heraclea Pontica / Alexandru Avram -- Names, Ethnicity And Acculturation In The Pamphylian-lycian Borderland / Mustafa Adak -- Histoire Par Les Noms In Ancient Galatia / Altay Coşkun -- Simple Names In Ionia / Jaime Curbera -- From Aphrodisias To Alexandria With Agroitas And Agreophon (via Hippoukome, Kalynda And Kaunos) / Riet Van Bremen -- Imperial Asia Minor : Economic Prosperity And Names / Christian Marek -- Resources For Naming : Problematic Names Of Asia Minor / Jaime Curbera -- Second Thoughts On Second Names In Aphrodisias / Angelos Chaniotis. Edited By Robert Parker. Papers Presented At A Conference Entitled 'anatolian Society,' Held In Wadham College, Oxford, July 11-12, 2011; This Was The 3rd Colloquium Of The Lexicon Of Greek Personal Names Project--page Ix. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.