onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recently retired long-serving editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( LGPN ): a 'collector of names'.



The LGPN , conceived by Peter Fraser, has had as its primary aim the documentation on a geographical basis of the personal names attested between the earliest use of the Greek alphabet (c. 750 BC) and the early seventh century AD throughout the Hellenic and hellenized world, wherever the Greek language and script was used.



The 55 contributions to this volume reflect well the breadth of LGPN itself, extending to all points of the compass far beyond the Greek heartlands bordering the Aegean sea, as well as the wide range of disciplines to which the study of personal names can be applied. Besides their honorific purpose, it is intended that the contributions will further advance this field of study, revealing some of the potential that has been unlocked by the systematic documentation of the evidence, mainly from inscriptions and papyri, that has accumulated over the last century. The papers presented here amply demonstrate the value of this raw material for linguists and philologists, students of Greek and Latin literature, epigraphists, papyrologists, numismatists and prosopographers, as well as social historians with broader interests in the geographical and chronological distribution of personal names.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editorial notes
• General Abbreviations
• About the Contributors
• 1. Elaine Matthews: an appreciation
• Aegean Islands
  • 2. simonides of Eretria (redivivus?)
  • 3. Phaistos Sybritas. An unpublished inscription from the Idaean Cave and personal names deriving from ethnics
  • 4. L’apport des mémoriaux de Claros à l’onomastique de Chios
  • 5. Carian names and Crete (with an Appendix by N. V. Sekunda)
  • 6. Ménédème de Pyrrha, proxène de Delphes: contribution épigraphique à l’histoire d’un philosophe et de sa cité
• Cyprus
  • 7. Lykophron's Alexandra and the Cypriote name Praxandros
• Cyrenaica
  • 8. Sur quelques noms nouveaux de Cyrénaïque
  • 9. A catalogue of officials of an association (?) in a newly discovered inscription from Ptolemais in Cyrenaica
  • 10. A new inscription from Ptolemais in Libya
• Athens
  • 11. Some people in third-century Athenian decrees
  • 12. Revising Athenian Propertied Families: progress and problems
  • 13. LGPN and the epigraphy and history of Attica
  • 14. A new edition of IG II2 2391. Exiles from Ionia?
  • 15. Foreign names, inter-marriage and citizenship in Hellenistic Athens
  • 16. Sarapion, son of Sarapion, of Melite – an inadvertent chronographer
• Peloponnese
  • 17. La famiglia di Damonikos di Messene
  • 18. ‘Becoming Roman’: à propos de deux générations parentes de néo-citoyens romains à Sparte et à Athènes
  • 19. Sparta's friends at Ephesos. The onomastic evidence
  • 20. New personal names from Argos
  • 21. Corinthians in exile 146–44 BC
  • 22. IG V (1) 229 revisited
  • 23. The Peloponnesian officials responsible for the second-century BC bronze coinage of the Achaian koinon
• Magna Graecia and Sicily
  • 24. Nomi femminili nella Sicilia di lingua ed epoca greca
  • 25. Onomastics and the administration of Italia / víteliú?
  • 26. Lamina bronzea iscritta da Leontinoi: Note onomastiche
  • 27. Soprannomi nella sicilia ellenistica: osservazioni e aggiunte 285
• Dalmatia
  • 28. Greek personal names in Latin Dalmatia
• Central Greece
  • 29. Tυννίχα. Per Elaine: un ‘piccolo’ contributo
  • 30. Remarques sur l’onomastique des cités de la Tripolis de Perrhébie
  • 31. Zum Problem thessalischer Phratrien
  • 32. The Philippeis of IG VII 2433
  • 33. Kaineus
• Macedonia
  • 34. Échantillons onomastiques de l’arrière-pays macédonien au IIIe siècle av. J.-C.
• Black Sea and Thrace
  • 35. Sur quelques noms d’Apollonia du Pont
  • 36. Teutaros, the Scythian teacher of Herakles
  • 37. La préhistoire du nom de Saint Sébastien: onomastiques en contact
  • 38. Des anthroponymes en -οῦς
  • 39. New lead plaques with Greek inscriptions from East Crimea (Bosporos)
• Asia Minor
  • 40. Asalatos at Kyme in Aiolis
  • 41. Adrastos at Aphrodisias
  • 42. Names in -ιανός in Asia Minor. A preliminary study
  • 43. CIG 2017: a phantom Thracian name and a false Corcyraean provenance
  • 44. Trading Families?
  • 45. The Coinage of Leukai
  • 46. An onomastic survey of the indigenous population of north-western Asia Minor
  • 47. A new inscription from the Cayster valley and the question of supernomina in Hellenistic and Roman Lydia
  • 48. Griechische Personennamen in Lykien. Einige Fallstudien
• Near East
  • 49. Bishops and their sees at the Sixth Session of the Council of Chalkedon: the Near Eastern provinces
  • 50. An unnoticed Macedonian name from Dura Europos
• General Studies
  • 51. Onomastics and law. Dike and -dike names
  • 52. Four intriguing names
  • 53. Onomastic research then and now: an example from the Greek novel
  • 54. The Roman calendar and its diffusion in the Greco-Roman East: The evidence of the personal name Kalandion
  • 55. EPOΠϒΘOΣ. Une pousse printanière pour Elaine matthews?
• Index 1: Index of Personal Names
• Index 2: General Index