The Cambridge Centre for Material Texts presents its “new forum for the study of the word in the world”. This is a pilot website that aims at “pushing forward critical, theoretical, editorial and bibliographical work in an area which is galvanizing humanities scholarship. Addressing a huge range of textual phenomena and traversing disciplinary boundaries that […]
Archive for December, 2009
December 16 2009
Ananios of Kleitor
On the Papy-list Traianos Gagos announces the publication of the fragments of an almost unknown Greek poet named Ananios of Kleitor: George Economou. Ananios. Ananios of Kleitor. Shearsman Books, 2009. Pp144. ISBN 978-1848610330. £9.95 (US $17). Ananios was born in 399 BC in the Arcadian city of Kleitor. His work is known through forty-one fragmentary […]
December 15 2009
DAI – FGrHist V
The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) is sponsoring the edition, translation, and commentary of the ancient geographers’ fragments originally planned by Felix Jacoby for the fifth volume of the Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. The project FGrHist V is directed by Hans-Joachim Gehrke and coordinated by Veronica Bucciantini. This project involves a large international team of editors. […]
December 7 2009
Fragmentary texts and digital libraries
I post a document with some notes on the main characteristics of fragmentary texts to be represented in a digital library of classical sources: Fragmentary Texts and Digital Libraries
December 7 2009
Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta
Sergei Mariev (ed.). Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta quae supersunt. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae 47. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. x, 599. ISBN 9783110204025. $207.00. Reviewed by Mark Whittow on BMCR 2009.12.06 Cf. also BMCR 2006.07.37 on Roberto Umberto (ed.). Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica. Introduzione, edizione critica e traduzione. Texte und Untersuchungen zur […]
December 2 2009
The edition of fragmentary texts: scattered remarks
Virgilio Costa sends us a document on the practice of editing and commenting fragments of ancient Greek historians: The Edition of Fragmentary Texts: scattered remarks In this document he reflects on the fundamental duties of an editor when working with fragmentary texts. Virgilio Costa is professor of Greek history at the University of Rome Tor […]
