Plutarch, Athenaeus, Elegy and Iambus, the Greek Anthology, Lucian and the Scaife Digital Lbrary – 1.6 million words of Open Content Greek (on Stoa.org by Gregory Crane) The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions for Plutarch, Athenaeus, the Greek Anthology, and for most of Lucian.
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October 7 2010
Fragments – Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts
Here is the link to a new open-access and peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of ancient and medieval pasts: Fragments. Particulary interesting is the aim of the journal and the meaning of its title: “The broadest aim of Fragments is to transcend fragmentation: to foster research that overflows the boundaries of various well-established and […]
August 18 2010
Juxta receives Google Digital Humanities Award
Here is a post from Juxta (Collation software for scholars), which is “an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. This software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and […]
July 26 2010
Monica Berti & Marco Büchler on Fragmentary Texts (Digital Classicist Seminar, London – July 30th, 2010)
Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig) Digital Classicist and Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010 Friday July 30th at 16:30, in room STB9, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
July 18 2010
demo.fragmentarytexts.org
Here is demo.fragmentarytexts.org, which is a site complementary to Fragmentary Texts and whose aim is to test tools and devise methods for representing fragments of lost authors and works.
May 24 2010
Digital Classicist 2010 Seminars
We post the programme of the Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminars, which will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. One of the seminars (July 30) is on Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors (Monica Berti & Marco Büchler) Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30 in room STB9 (Stewart House) Senate […]
May 5 2010
Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook
Here is an interesting announcement appeared in the Brown Alumni Magazine (March/April 2010), which illustrates the reconstruction of a “modern” example of fragmentary text: April 22, 2010 — Using digital images, scholars have discovered that fragments of paper at libraries at Brown and the University of Chicago are two halves of a single page on […]
April 16 2010
Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity
Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, edited by Gabriel Bodard (King’s College, London, UK) and Simon Mahony (University College London, UK), Ashgate 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7773-4 £ 55.00 This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented to Classical scholarship by digital practice and resources. Drawing on the expertise of a community of scholars who […]
