Next, you are given the Greek text, which you have the option of viewing either in transliteration, in betacode, or in a number of popular Greek fonts (as here). To view the text in a Greek font you must have the font installed on your computer. For advice on downloading and viewing Greek fonts on the web, visit the following page from the Perseus project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/fonthelp.html.

Immediately following is the form where you enter your translation: Enter the translation itself into the large box provided. Pay attention to the formatting advice given above the box, particularly in regard to double-spacing (i.e. hitting the "enter" or "return" key twice) between paragraphs, and to the formatting of footnote numbers. The easiest and safest way to enter your translation is to write it all out using a word processing program, then copy and paste the text into this box.

More detailed instructions on formatting and style can be found in the Content and Style section below.

NOTES, BIBLIOGRPHY and LINKS:

The translation entry page also includes boxes in which you can enter notes, bibliography and associated internet addresses:

You are encouraged to enter additional information in these boxes but you are not required to do so.

The footnotes should offer clarification of muddy references, explanations of citations or allusions made in the text, references to ancient texts that are parallel to, derived from or sources of what’s in the Erbse Scholia.  Your footnotes should also point out information that is clearly or arguably wrong. References to easily obtainable reference works such as the OCD, Smythe, etc. would also be helpful, as would citations of modern scholarship on issues with which your entry deals.  For bibliographical references in notes, the preferred format is the MLA format for parenthetical in-text citations. Be sure to use the same method of numbering the footnotes that you use in the translation itself (i.e. [1], [2], [3] … etc.). You may make a general comment on the entry by writing it at the top of the footnote box without a number. DOUBLE-SPACE between footnotes, as you did between paragraphs in the translation.

You should place all full bibliographical references in the "Additional Bibliography" section (the name of this section will soon be changed simply to "Bibliography". The preferred bibliographical format is the MLA "works cited" format. You should include in this section the full bibliographical information that you cite in abbreviated form in the notes. You may also include references to scholarship that is more general or tangential than what you put in your notes. Do not put ancient works in the bibliography section; refer to them instead in your footnotes. DOUBLE-SPACE between bibliographical entries

We have also installed a quick and easy way to include Web links in your NewScholiasts entry. If you choose to include links, be sure that in your notes you explain the destination of the link. Below the "Notes" section you will find a system by which you can automatically generate links to a number of useful Web resources. Currently the system is set up to provide links to the following sites: Perseus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the "Stoa Waypoints" index of GPS data, the on-line Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites and an electronic edition of the Bible. More sites will be added later.

For each link you want to generate, select the Web database in the left-hand box. The pull-down menu in the center allows you to choose particular sub-sections of the site in question (for instance, for Perseus you can choose to limit your links to LSJ entries or to entries in their electronic version of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Enter the term you want to search for (e.g. a name, a site, or a textual citation) in the text field on the right-hand side of the page. It may take some trial and error to generate working links to the site you want, since you generally have to use the same transliteration and/or citation format that the target site does for the system to work properly. After you have submitted your translation, please be sure to check out each link you have generated by clicking on it and verifying that it takes you to an appropriate Web site. If it doesn't, go back and modify what you put in the text field or remove the link by clearing the text field and selecting "none" in the site selection menu.

Links that you cannot generate using the automated system should be put into the field labelled"Associated Web Addresses." Be sure to give the complete URL, including the "http://" part.  If you have a web browser that lets you view two windows at the same time, an easy and almost foolproof way to do this is to open another window, call up the page you want to refer to in that window, copy the URL bodily from your browser's address box, then return to the NS entry page and paste the URL there.  DOUBLE—SPACE between items in this section, just as you did for footnotes.  If you click HERE you will go to a site designed by our own Ross Scaife to make it easy to find internet resources of all sorts, and clicking HERE will take you to the Argos ancient/medieval search engine , in case you want to cast your net even wider.

SUBMITTING YOUR TRANSLATION:

When you have completed then entire process, click on the button labelled "Click here to see what you have entered:

You will be shown a mock-up of how your entry will look when people access it from the database. If you see mistakes or things you want to change, you can go back using the "Back" key on your browser and change whatever you like. Nothing will be submitted to the database until you hit the button labelled "Confirm to Save". If you get to this point and suddenly realize that you really ought to put a lot more thought into your entry, don’t worry. You can simply leave the NS site and come back to it later when you’re ready. Again, nothing is submitted to the database until you click on the "Confirm to Save" button on this page.

MODIFYING YOUR TRANSLATION:

As long as you are registered as a translator, you can go back at any time and add to or improve translations you have already submitted. Click the "Modify my own translation" button on the Translator Options page and you will be presented with the following screen:

Select the entry you want to modify. The subsequent process is identical to translating the entry for the first time.

DEADLINES: Once you are assigned an entry, there is no fixed deadline by which you must complete the translation. After one month, however, we may start reminding you about it. After three months we reserve the right to reassign the entry to somone else without your permission, though we will make every effort to keep you informed and to honor requests for more time.

COPYRIGHT ISSUES: You maintain the rights to your translation in the sense that you may publish it or disseminate it elsewhere to your heart’s content. However, if you submit material to NS it is with the understanding that it will become a permanent part of the NS database. The editors of NS can (and will) add to and modify your entry and may even replace it or delete it from the database without obtaining your permission.

TEXT

The standard text for the NS is Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem. You are welcome to use some other edition if this is unavailable, but please inform us of the edition you are using and note, as far as possible, any deviations from the text as it is presented on the entry page.

STYLE

Because of the way this project evolved, we received a lot of translation entries before we worked out anything like a style sheet, so if you browse through the existing entries, you'll notice a lot of variation. Here are some guidelines that we are currently urging on our translators. Eventually all the entries will be regularized to this standard:
 

• Imagine as your ideal audience advanced undergraduate students who have some knowledge of ancient history and literature but little or no knowledge of ancient languages. Avoid putting in your notes information that could be easily found in basic textbooks and in readily-available reference works such as the Oxford Classical Dictionary

• Avoid leaving untranslated Greek in your translation. If you think anything needs to be clarified by the inclusion of the original Greek word(s), relegate the Greek, if possible, to footnotes. Sometimes (for instance, in entries that give morphological information), it will be necessary to include Greek words in your translation.

• When you include original Greek in your translation or footnotes, the preferred format is betacode. To learn how to write Greek in betacode, visit the following site:

http://www.stoa.org/ns/betapal.shtml

• Enclose any betacode Greek in the <g></g> tag. For instance, typing:

<g>Pla/twn</g>

will make Plato's name appear in Greek on the user's screen (if he or she has a compatible Greek font on his/her system).

• Transliterate Greek names and words using the direct, non-Latinized system:

alpha-iota = ai
epsilon-iota = ei
gamma-gamma = ng
gamma-kappa = nk
gamma-chi = nkh
zeta = z
iota subscript = i
kappa = k
omicron-iota = oi
omicron-upsion = ou
final omicron-sigma = os
phi = ph
upsilon = y
chi = kh
final omega-nu = on

 
EXCEPTIONS: you need not follow this system when there is a Latinized or Anglicized form so familiar that confusion might arise in its absence (e.g. Alexander, Aristotle, Plato), and you should NOT follow this pattern when the Greek represents a Latin name (e.g. fabwri=nos should be transliterated as Favorinus, not Phaborinos).

• Put the most recognizable or popular transliteration first, if there is one; otherwise put first the transliteration that follows the rules given above.

• REFERENCES AND CITATIONS
• • As mentioned above, use the MLA standard of citation in referring to modern works.

• In referring to ancient works in footnotes, use the standard abbreviations as found in LSJ and the Oxford Latin Dictionary, or, where possible, the TLG-standard abbreviations, as used by Perseus.

• In citations, you may use the standard abbreviations used in L'Année philologique and the Oxford Classical Dictionary for periodicals and well-known reference works. For a list of standard abbreviations visit the following site (from the TOCS-IN project):

• http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8 080/amphoras/revues.txt

• Aside from Greek, the only special formatting or typeface you should use is the italicization of titles, abbreviations of titles and foreign words. To italicise something in your translation or your notes, enclose the words to be italicized with the <i> </i> tag. For instance:

<i>The Ethics of Deconstruction</i>

• will make "The Ethics of Deconstruction" appear as The Ethics of Deconstruction on the Web. Note that if you copy italicised text from your word processor, it will not remain italicised when you paste it into the text entry box. You must add the <i></i> tag either before or after you copy and paste the text.

If you have any trouble, questions, or suggestions for improvement, the Managing Editors would be very happy to hear from you.

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