A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume III.A: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia Volume IIIA: The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia

This lexicon provides scholars and students of Greek civilization with a list, supported by evidence, of personal names known from literature, inscriptions, papyri, vases, coins, and other objects dating from the earliest period to the 7th century A.D. It promises to replace the mid-19th-century work of Pape and Benseler and offer fresh impetus to a wide range of historical and literary research. Produced under the auspices of the British Academy, the complete lexicon will be published in six volumes. "The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was established in 1972 as a Major Research Project of the British Academy, at the suggestion of Peter Marshall Fraser, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy. On acceptance of the proposal, Fraser was appointed Director of the project and Chairman of an advisory committee. From the start, LGPN involved international collaboration, scholars from many countries being invited to contribute material and advice; but the Editors and central staff have always worked in Oxford. In October 1996, the project became part of Oxford University, under the aegis of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, now the Faculty of Classics. It is a member of the group of Oxford Classics Research Projects. The project receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Academy of Athens. Purpose and Scope[:] To collect and publish with documentation all known ancient Greek personal names (including non-Greek names recorded in Greek, and Greek names in Latin), drawn from all available sources (literature, inscriptions, graffiti, papyri, coins, vases and other artefacts), within the period from the earliest Greek written records down to, approximately, the sixth century A.D. The work thus starts with the period of epichoric scripts, embraces the classical and hellenistic periods of Greek history, following dialect and the development of koine, and continues through the period of the Roman Empire when Greek nomenclature underwent changes as a result of Roman rule, and religious, social and other factors. Excluded names include mythological and heroic names, Mycenaean names, later Byzantine names and geographical names."-- Publisher's website

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world, drawing on all available evidence from the earliest times to about AD 600. This new volume, III.A, provides the onomastic material from the Peloponnese, Western Greece, and Magna Graecia, continuing the series begun with Volume I, The Aegean Islands, Cyrpus, and Cyrenaica, and Volume II, Attica.

This lexicon provides students of the Greek world with a list, accompanied by full, itemized evidence, of personal names known from literature, inscriptions, papyri, vases, coins, and other objects. For personal names, therefore, it replaces the mid-nineteenth-century work of Pape and Benseler. v. 1. The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica v. 2. Attica v. 3, pt. A. The Peloponnese, western Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia. pt. B Central Greece from the Megarid to Thessaly.