Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Coastal Asia Minor

整个LGPN项目的主要目的是创建和传播一个全面和权威的名字证据收集，从而释放名字所包含的潜力，对古希腊生活的各个方面进行创新研究。它涵盖了从最早的历史记录（公元前8世纪）到早期拜占庭时期（公元6世纪）的时期，它的原材料来自所有可能的来源。这项研究涵盖了从古代涂鸦到教会会议的所有经典资料，是LGPN独特的、不可替代的资产：大约40万有记录的个人。当然，他们需要在出版前及时更新。与区域专家合作是一项必要的援助，该项目长期以来一直依靠国际联系网络。但控制必须由中央实施，因为外部专家带来了他们自己的重点，这与LGPN独特的专业知识不同。LGPN不仅仅是关于名字，而是关于人。每一个名字的证明持有人都包括在内；《词典》是古希腊世界的电话簿。这里的“希腊”不仅指地理意义上的希腊世界，还指希腊人定居并留下印记的所有地区：横跨地中海、巴尔干半岛和中东部分地区。不应该忘记的是，超过一半的罗马帝国是讲希腊语的。已出版的五卷书逐渐记录了25万古希腊人的姓名、起源、日期、关系和地位。这类著作的价值是累积的：每一卷新书不仅提供了一个新地区的证据，而且常常以新的视角从前一卷中找到证据（比如当一个殖民地和一个母城之间的联系出现时，或者一个地区的名称特征出现在另一个地区时）。出版的LGPN卷已经成为任何工具箱中最基本的项目之一；名字几乎出现在每一个铭文中，并且总是有一个故事要讲，但是这个故事只能在背景和比较证据的基础上进行解释。通过它在1998年和2003年组织的两次会议，LGPN还在文学学者、社会历史学家和碑文学家中鼓励了对象限学的认识和象限学研究的繁荣。目前的研究建议包括第三次会议，这将再次反映该项目的工作。在到达加利亚和小亚细亚南部海岸时，LGPN面临着特殊的问题和机遇。这些地区的名字带来了种族、文化起源和忠诚以及文化互动等问题。需要研究的主题包括土著名字的持久性，它们为它们所反映的语言提供的证据，以及它们与希腊名字的关系。进一步的研究可能会评估这些名字作为社会地位的证据，或者通过名字的不同分布来阐明城市和地区之间的关系。不注意这些问题，我们就不能写出要求的标准作品。研究这些问题的方案，在一次国际会议上达到高潮，因此是我们词典编纂工作的必要部分。但就文化史而言，它也具有巨大的独立利益。词典的累积重要性已在上面提到。例如，将其范围扩大15%，其作为研究工具的价值将增加15%以上。但是，只有使数据库可供所有用户搜索，才能充分实现这种附加价值。本网站所提供的设施的这一重大扩展是本申请的另一个重要目标。我们还将在网上提供大量新的材料档案，其兴趣不应被其单调的“其他”标题所掩盖。

The primary purpose of the whole LGPN project is to create and disseminate a comprehensive and authoritative collection of name evidence, and so unlock the potential contained in names for innovative research into every aspect of ancient Greek life. It covers the period from the earliest historical records (8th century BC) to the early Byzantine period (6th century AD), and its raw material is drawn from all possible sources. This research across the whole sweep of classical sources - everything from archaic graffiti to Church Councils - is LGPN's unique, irreplaceable asset: some 400,000 documented individuals. They need, of course, to be brought up to date prior to publication. Collaboration with regional specialists is an essential aid, and the project has long drawn on a network of international contacts. But control has to be exercised from the centre, since outside specialists bring their own focus, different from the distinctive onomastic expertise of LGPN. LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included; the Lexicon is the telephone directory of the ancient Greek world. 'Greek' here refers not just to the Greek world in the geographical sense, but to all regions where Greeks settled and left their imprint: across the Mediterranean, in the Balkans and in parts of the Middle East. It should not be forgotten that more than half the Roman empire was Greek-speaking. The five published volumes have progressively documented the names, origins, dates, relationships and statuses of a quarter of a million ancient Greeks. The value of such a work is cumulative: each new volume does not merely provide evidence for a new region, but often sets evidence from a previous volume in a new light (as when onomastic links between a colony and a mother city emerge, or a name characteristic of one region appears in another). The published LGPN volumes have already established themselves among the most fundamental items in any toolbox; names occur in virtually every inscription, and always have a story to tell, but one which can only be interpreted on the basis of contextual and comparative evidence. Through two previous conferences that it organised in 1998 and 2003, LGPN has also encouraged a boom in onomastic awareness and in onomastic research, among literary scholars and social historians as well as epigraphists. The present research proposal incorporates a third conference, which will again reflect the project's work. Special problems and opportunities confront LGPN as it reaches Caria and the southern coast of Asia Minor. Names in these regions bring issues of ethnicity, cultural origins and allegiance, and cultural interaction into sharp focus. Among the themes that demand study are the persistence of indigenous names, the evidence they provide for the languages they reflect, and their relationship to Greek names. Further studies may assess these names as evidence for social status, or throw light, through the differential distribution of names, on the relationship between city and territory. Without attention to such questions, we cannot produce work of the required standard. The programme of research into these issues, culminating in an international conference, is therefore a necessary part of our lexicographical work. But it is also of great independent interest in terms of cultural history. The cumulative importance of the Lexicon was mentioned above. Increasing its scope by, say, 15% increases its value as a research tool by more than 15%. But this added value can only be fully realised by making the data-base available for searching by all users. This major extension of the facilities offered by our website is an important further aim of the present application. We will also make available on the web a large new dossier of material, the interest of which should not be obscured by its drab title of 'Others'.