Gregory Crane, editor in chief of the Perseus Digital Library, was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Rome Tor Vergata on October 20-27, 2009. On that occasion, he gave three seminars in Italian on the following topics: La storia di Perseus Digital Library e la nascita delle Digital Humanities negli Stati Uniti […]
Archive for November, 2009
November 25 2009
Istros the Callimachean: the fragments on Athens
Monica Berti, Istro il Callimacheo, I, Testimonianze e frammenti su Atene e sull’Attica, Edizioni Tored, Tivoli (Roma) 2009 This is the first volume of the edition of the fragments of Istrus the Callimachean. Istrus was a pupil of the great Hellenistic poet Callimachus and worked in the Alexandrian Library. He was interested in many aspects […]
November 25 2009
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop – I Frammenti degli Storici Greci
Tradizione e trasmissione degli storici greci frammentari in ricordo di Silvio Accame. Atti del II workshop internazionale, Roma, 16-18 febbraio 2006, a cura di E. Lanzillotta – V. Costa – G. Ottone, Edizioni Tored, Tivoli (Roma) 2009 This volume is the publication of the proceedings of the second international workshop of the series I Frammenti […]
November 24 2009
Raising fragments to the status of the whole?
The University of Oxford and the Democritus University of Thrace have organized a conference to bring together an international group of distinguished speakers to consider the status of the fragment in antiquity, ancient perceptions of fragments and attitudes to fragmentary texts. The conference was held in Komitini (Greece) on September 4-7, 2009. See the Program […]
November 24 2009
Gedenkfeier aus Anlass des 50. Todestages von Felix Jacoby
On November 10, 2009 the Humboldt University of Berlin and the German Archaeological Institute held a conference to commemorate Felix Jacoby fifty years after his death. Felix Jacoby was the scholar who collected the fragments of the Greek historians in Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. See the Program of the conference Read the Report of […]
November 24 2009
Hello world!
Hi, this is a new blog to discuss models and methodologies for representing fragmentary texts, i.e. ancient texts preserved in fragments. On the meaning of “ancient texts” and “fragments”, please see the About page.
