From Domenico Fiormonte: We are happy to announce the publication of our new book: L’umanista digitale, by Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte and Francesca Tomasi (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010). This work follows the collective Informatica per le discipline umanistiche (ed. by Teresa Numerico and Arturo Vespignani, 2004), a small best-seller in our field, as it was […]
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March 24 2010
The Fragments of the Works of Xenophon
Here is the publication of the fragments of the works of Xenophon, edited in the series “Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini”: 8 – Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte A. Storici greci. 1. Autori noti. I frammenti delle opere di Senofonte, a cura di Natascia Pellé, 2010, pp. 226, Fabrizio Serra […]
March 21 2010
EpiDoc training at the 2010 DHO Summer School
From Gabriel Bodard: Last week twelve professional papyrologists were trained in the use of the new SoSOL tool(*) for tags-free markup of documentary texts [see EpiDoc – Son of SOL Training Session, King’s College London]. In the process, c.100 texts were painlessly added to the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri.
March 5 2010
EpiDoc – Son of SOL Workshop (King’s College London, March 8-13, 2010)
An EpiDoc – Son of SOL workshop will be held at the Center for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College, London) on March 8-13, 2010. The aim of the workshop is to introduce participants to the use of EpiDoc Guidelines for encoding fragmentary texts preserved on stones and papyri. For previous workshops and summer schools […]
February 15 2010
Six Comic Poets: A Commentary on Selected Fragments of Middle Comedy
Athina Papachrysostomou (ed.), Six Comic Poets: A Commentary on Selected Fragments of Middle Comedy. Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption; N.S., 4. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. Pp. 303. ISBN 9783823363781. €58.00 This book provides a commentary on the most important remains of several of the key poets of the Athenian Middle Comedy.
January 25 2010
Duris of Samos
Here is a post on a new conference on the fragmentary author Duris of Samos, which will be held in Paris in late 2010: Douris de Samos (env. 340 – 280), polygraphe, auteur d’ouvrages relevant de la critique littéraire, de l’histoire de l’art, sans doute de la musicologie, et surtout de livres historiques. Il reste […]
January 11 2010
Workshop on Historical Texts (Perseus Project, January 13-14, 2010)
Here is the program of a workshop on historical texts, which will be held at the Perseus Project at Tufts University on January 13 and 14, 2010: Workshop on Historical Texts Two papers will be devoted to the problem of editing fragments: Monica Berti, Fragmentary Texts & Digital Libraries Alexandra Trachsel, An Online Edition of […]
January 2 2010
Representing Citations in the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus
A new project (Representing Citations in the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus), directed by Monica Berti in collaboration with Virgilio Costa, aims at investigating the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus in order to (1) carry out a systematic survey of the citations preserved in the fifteen books of Athenaeus’ work, (2) build a fully comprehensive repository of the quotation […]
