Resumen de Seeking Aphrodisios and Philoxenos: Personal Names as a Criterion for Identification in Some Early Roman Papyri in the John Rylands Library
Two case studies of prosopographical identification are presented for a corpus of early roman texts from euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome. the first concerns the name Aphrodisios, which reappears across several documents, and which suggests a new connection between previously unlinked documents. the second deals with the name Philoxenos, and concludes that the presence of a name alone is not sufficient to confirm identification, even within texts of similar origin and date. Further comments are made on the use of trismegistos People as a tool for research.
