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foire: acquis et problèmes. Actes du congrès de la
société des professeurs d'Histofre ancienne, Lyon-
Chambéry, 21-23 mai 1993 (Lyon 1998) 93-100, esp.
98-99.
14. See the examples noted by A. D. Rizakis,
"Anthroponymie et société. Les noms romains dans
les provinces hellénophones de l'Empire", in:
Roman onomastics, 23 et n. 48-49.
15. With regard for example to use of the Greek and
Latin languages, the ethnic origin of individuals, the
geographical and chronological classification of certain
names, the onomastic customs and practices of
various social groups (women, upper classes, freedmen,
slaves), the local character of certain nomina
and cognomina, etc.; cf. G. Alföldy, Die
Personnamen in der römischen Provinz Dalmatia
(Heidelberg 1969).
16. See Cl. Nicolet, "L'onomastique des groupes
dirigeants sous la République", in: L'onomastique
latine, 46.
17. Cf. Y. Burnand, "Epigraphie et anthroponymie",
in: Akten des IV. internationalen Kongresses für
griechische und lateinische Epigraphik, Wien 17. bis
22. September 1962 (Vienna 1964) 59; J. Sasel,
loc.cit., 353-354 and no. 8 with bibliography.
18. On this subject, see the keen observations of R.
Sailer, "The family and society", in: J. Bodel (ed.),
Epigraphie evidence. Ancient history from inscriptions
(London-New York 2001) 95-117, esp. 96-97.
19. On the usefulness of statistics derived from nomina
and the necessity of a systematic classification
case by case in order to avoid confusion, see R.
Etienne, in: Acta of the fifth international congress
of Greek and Latin epigraphy, Cambridge 1967
(Oxford 1971) 229-234.
20. The Romans used the enticement of citizenship,
at least after the first civil war, as a means of encouraging
better and swifter assimilation of primarily the
urban elites into the Roman political and social system.
With the exception of the imposition of the
name Aurelius at the beginning of the third century
A.D., Roman names acquired through citizenship
grants do not conform to political, social, economic
or religious conventions imposed by the state (see
A.D. Rizakis, in: Roman onomastics, 27 n. 71 with
bibliography). The reasons why citizenship was
granted to all the empire's free subjects remain very
controversial among specialists: for a recent view,
see K. Buraselis, ΘΕΙΑ ΔΩΡΕΑ. Studies on the policy
of the Severans and the Constitutio Antoniniana
ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
(Athens 1989; in Greek with English summary).
21. A better understanding of this phenomenon continues
to be a desideratum for studies on the eastern
Roman provinces: in general, see R. Sailer, in: J.
Bodel (ed.), Epigraphie evidence. Ancient history
from inscriptions (London-New York 2001) 113-
115.
22. Cf. A.D. Rizakis, in: Roman onomastics, 15 n.10
with relevant bibliography.
23. See recently O. Salomies, "Names and identities.
Onomastics and prosopography", in J. Bodel (ed.),
Epigraphie evidence. Ancient history from inscriptions
(London-New York 2001) 73-94 on the relationship
between prosopography and onomastics.
24. Inscriptions very often record the praenomina,
nomina, filiation, tribe and cognomina of persons
known only by their nomen and cognomen in the literary
sources. Some two thirds of the epigraphie
monuments known from the West (170,000-190,000
out of a total of 250, 000) are funerary; cf. R. Sailer
and B. Shaw, "Tombstones and Roman family relations
in the principate: civilians, soldiers and slaves",
JRS 74, 1984, 124-56. In the East, funerary monuments
represent somewhat less than fifty percent:
see M. Guarducci, Epigrafia greca I (Rome 1967) 8-
11. On this subject in general, see G. Pfohl and C.
Pietri, "Grabinschrift I (griechisch)" [Pfohl] and
"Grabinschrift II (lateinisch)" [Pietri], Reallexicon
für Antike und Christentum 12 (Stuttgart 1983) 467-
514,514-590.
25. Studies of this phenomenon have not yielded satisfactory
results, see especially, for the West, S.
Mrozek, "A propos de la répartition chronologique
des inscriptions latines dans le Haut Empire",
Epigraphica 35, 1973, 113-118; id., Epigraphica 50,
1988,61-64; R. MacMullen, "The epigraphie habit in
the Roman empire", AJP 103, 1982, 233-246. On
the same subject, see more recently the study of E.A.
Meyer, "Explaining the epigraphie habit in the
Roman empire. The evidence of epitaphs", JRS 80,
1990, 74-96, esp. 83 with relevant bibliography.
26. J. Bodel, "Epigraphy and the ancient historian",
in: J. Bodel (ed.), Epigraphie evidence. Ancient history
from inscriptions (London-New York 2001) 6-13.
27. The benefits offered by epigraphical material
for all types of research involved with personal
names is clearly presented by O. Salomies, op. cit.,
(η. 28), 79-81 and 84.
28. Cf. A.D. Rizakis, "La constitution des élites
municipales dans les colonies romaines de la