...Until the 1960s, two works of Johannes Sundwall were the unique repertories of the onomastics of Asia Minor. In 1963 appeared Noms indigènes de l’Asie Mineure gréco-romaine of Louis Robert, an indictment of the methods of Sundwall and invitation to rigorous philology, a turning point...

...This essay indicates the interest of the subject, and the themes that run through the volume: the predominant place of Anatolia within the evidence for Greek naming in the Roman period; the great virtues of Louis Robert’s Noms indigènes dans l’Asie Mineure gréco-romaine, and its...

... in names such as Sardonyx and Nard, or the growing adoption by Greek civic elites of ‘second names’. Published exactly fifty years after Louis Robert’s Noms indigènes dans l’Asie Mineure gréco-romaine, this volume builds on and goes beyond that classic work, while remaining true to its...