Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

希腊人名词典（LGPN）项目旨在创建和传播一个全面和权威的个人姓名证据收集，从而释放这些名字中包含的潜力，用于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）到拜占庭早期（公元7世纪）的时期。LGPN不仅仅是关于名字，而是关于人。每个名字的证明持有者都包括在内。因此，它是研究社会历史大多数方面的基本工具。已经出版的七卷LGPN（第八卷正在进行中）已经成为任何古代历史学家工具箱中最重要的物品之一。通过一系列的会议和出版物，LGPN鼓励了文学学者、社会历史学家和铭文学家对专有名词的认识和研究。本申请的第一个目标是准备第九卷，将涵盖罗马时代的叙利亚，犹太，巴勒斯坦，阿拉伯，奥斯罗尼和美索不达米亚省（以下简称RNE[罗马近东]），以及所谓的“希腊远东”（伊朗，巴克特里亚，印度）。我们目前估计涉及的姓名数量约为30,000，即按规模需要250-300页的卷宗。不像它的前任，新的卷将处理的证据是在相当大的规模以外的语言希腊语和拉丁语（主要是叙利亚语，希伯来语，阿拉姆语和阿拉伯语的各种方言，并在一个更小的规模巴比伦楔形文字）：一些希腊名字出现在希腊以外的语言，一些非希腊名字出现在希腊（因此属于我们的职权范围）也出现在非希腊来源。这是一个困难的新挑战，也是一个新的机会，为此，我们将征聘一名受过闪米特语训练的研究人员，并征求众多专家的意见。在处理用希腊文记录的非希腊名字时，一个新的做法是在已知的情况下给出它们所属语言的形式（在转录中），并在这些名称注册的语言中引用onomastica（在可用的情况下）。因此，我们将在两类证据之间架起一座桥梁，这两类证据往往因语言障碍而被分开。大部分材料将来自RNE，并且（除了沿海地区）是罗马帝国时期的。甚至当希腊（和拉丁）铭文开始大量出现时，它们也经常包含用希腊文写的闪米特名字，或者希腊罗马名字，因为它们在意义或发音上与闪米特名字非常相似而受到青睐。名字是最重要的见证之一，证明在希腊罗马的外表下，土著居民往往难以捉摸的坚持。因此，文化互动的主要问题是由本卷收集的材料提出的。本建议在已建立的LGPN丛书中纳入第五卷会议加卷，其中主要专家将在项目收集的新证据的帮助下处理这些问题。自成立以来，LGPN一直是数字人文学科领域的重要存在，最近，由于数据库的重大转换，允许基于（例如）地点，时间和状态的完全在线搜索。但目前，它只提供原始数据，名称本身，为历史语言学家。里昂大学的Sophie Minon教授提议与LGPN合作，对数据库进行“语言扩展”，以提供缺失的语言分析，并允许所有包含给定语义元素（如Leo-/- Leo）的无数化合物一起查看。我们将与Minon教授的团队合作，将这个主要的新组件添加到数据库中。这将使它成为语言学家（希腊语和比较语言学家）不可或缺的工作工具，就像它已经成为历史学家的工作工具一样。

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) project seeks to create and disseminate a comprehensive and authoritative collection of personal name evidence, and so unlock the potential contained in such 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 (7th century AD). LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included. It is thus a fundamental tool for research into most aspects of social history. The seven published LGPN volumes (an eighth is in progress) have already established themselves among the most essential items in any ancient historian's toolbox. Through a succession of conferences and publications, LGPN has encouraged a boom in onomastic awareness and research, among literary scholars and social historians as well as epigraphists. The first objective of the present application is to prepare a ninth volume that will cover what in Roman times were the provinces of Syria, Judaea Palaestina, Arabia, Osrhoene and Mesopotamia (henceforth RNE [Roman Near East]), and also the so-called 'Greek Far East' (Iran, Bactria, India). Our current estimate of the number of names involved is c. 30,000, i.e. on a scale to require a volume of 250-300 folio pages. Unlike its predecessors, the new volume will treat regions where evidence is available on a substantial scale in languages other than Greek and Latin (principally Syriac, Hebrew, the various dialects of Aramaic and Arabic, and on a much smaller scale Babylonian cuneiform): some Greek names appear in languages other than Greek, some non-Greek names that appear in Greek (and thus fall within our remit) occur also in non-Greek sources. This is a difficult new challenge and a new opportunity, to deal with which we will recruit a researcher trained in Semitic languages and call on the advice of numerous experts. A new departure in dealing with non-Greek names recorded in Greek will be to give their form (in transcription) in the language to which they belong where known, and a reference to onomastica (where available) for those languages where the name in question is registered. We will thus provide a bridge between two classes of evidence too often kept separate through linguistic barriers. The bulk of the material will come from RNE, and (apart from the coastal region) is of the period of the Roman empire. Even when Greek (and Latin) inscriptions start to appear in good numbers, they often contain Semitic names written in Greek, or Greco-Roman names favoured because they closely resemble Semitic names in meaning or in sound. Names are among the most important witnesses to the often elusive persistence of the indigenous beneath the Greco-Roman veneer. Major issues of cultural interaction are therefore posed by the material to be collected in this volume. The present proposal incorporates a fifth conference-plus-volume in the established LGPN series, at which leading experts will tackle these issues with the aid of the new evidence being collected by the project.LGPN has been an important presence in the field of Digital Humanities since its inception, most recently since a major conversion of the database to allow full online searching on the basis of (e.g.) location, time, and status. But at present it provides only raw data, the names themselves, for historical linguists. Professor Sophie Minon of Lyon has proposed to collaborate with LGPN to produce a 'linguistic extension' to the database which will provide the missing linguistic analysis and allow e.g. all the innumerable compounds containing a given semantic element such as Leo-/-leos to be viewed together. We will collaborate with Professor Minon's team to add this major new component to the database. This will make it as indispensable a working tool for linguists (Greek and comparative) as it is already for historians.