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Comment on Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) by Dot Porter

Dot Porter — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000

This is so exciting, congratulations guys!!! Look forward to seeing what you come up with :-)

Comment on Digital Papyrology by Gabriel Bodard

Gabriel Bodard — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:37:49 +0000

Now see also: * Ryan F. Baumann, 'The Son of Suda On-Line' forthcoming 2013 in (edd. S. Mahony & S. Dunn), Digital Classicist, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement. (Prepress draft: http://rfbaumann.com/papers/sosol-bics-draft.pdf)

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by cosmos

cosmos — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:17:52 +0000

Please see the work of Canadian translator Ian Johnston. Very accessible.

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by Mark S

Mark S — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:59:16 +0000

I don’t know if anyone will see this comment since the thread is old, but I second Rovertos’s suggestions. I would also like to see more modern commentaries and other modern works available. In the case of Aristotle, works by Bonitz and Ross would be useful. That might require more work than a simple text dump to be useful though.

Going beyond text suggestions a bit…

For those with large screens, it would be great to be able to normally and without extra clicking have the text, translation, and commentary of at least a normal sized page worth of Greek text displayed all at once. And it would be great if clicking on or hovering over a Greek word would take one directly to the LSJ entry for that word. I NEVER want to use Middle Liddell, Slater, or Autenrieth, and for those cases in which Perseus can’t figure out what the headword is, I would be happy if it simply displayed all the possible entries, in order of likeliness. Also, as things stand, Perseus’s version of the LSJ has a big disadvantage compared to the TLG’s since it gives context for far fewer of the citations. (The TLG’s LSJ does this for everything in the TLG, even for people who are not TLG subscribers.) I am not sure what the best way to address this is, but in general, better integration of Perseus and the TLG would be a very good thing. For instance, the TLG now provides links to Perseus translations when they are available, but they are often inaccurate, and part of the problem might be that Perseus is extremely particular about the format it accepts references to classical texts in (a problem that also makes it had to look up a passage in Perseus by typing in a reference one might find in a book or article).

More usable versions of Smyth and Kuehner-Blass would also be fantastic.

Comment on Historical placemarks in Google Earth by Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:27:11 +0000

Despite the morality of using violence to achieve personal or political aims, the fact remains that Countries exist because of wars fought against their neighbours or rivals. Independence is largely secured through the employment of armed forces and the willingness to fight if threatened, this alone prepares us all for such an eventuality.

I commend you on your site it contains a lot of quality information and is well done.

Comment on EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013 by Teshager Habtie

Teshager Habtie — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:55:01 +0000

I am a PhD.D candidate in Addis Ababa University in Philology. My project title is :The Archaeological and Philological Approaches to Study Epigraphic Sources towards Reconstructing the Dark-Ages (8thc-12th c A.D) In Ethiopian History .Hence, I need to have such training.

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by Rovertos Heller

Rovertos Heller — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:35:15 +0000

So many. Even without the translation just the original would be great. Some I’m surprised are not on there already. Great work with getting more Plutarch up by the way.

Empedocles William E. Leonard translation with greek

Aristotle’s Complete works but in particular his ‘On Soul’ and his ‘Physics’

Plato’s Complete works

Stobaeus

Philoponus

Sextus Empiricus

Alexander of Aphrodisias

Simplicius

Porphyry

Augustine ‘confessions’

Justus Lipsius (this one would be of great interest for Stoicism)

Lots more but these are first choice.

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by Lisa Cerrato

Lisa Cerrato — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:44:42 +0000

Perseus has a small Renaissance Collection: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Renaissance

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by Gabe Baker

Gabe Baker — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:22:55 +0000

Please include literally anything from the Renaissance. Sick of Classical and Christian fathers.

Comment on Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations? by Javier Sánchez González

Javier Sánchez González — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:46:50 +0000

It would be great to digitalice some authors as St. Columbanus, making more accessible works as Sermons.