de commentariis β (on commentaries)

de commentariis β (on commentaries)

Welcome to De Commentariis; an open network for the crowd-sourcing of ancient text commentaries. Construct your own commentaries on classical texts, and view the commentaries others have made. Use it to get your students to critically engage with their learning texts.

This β version web application enables users to 'crowd-source' commentaries on ancient texts. You can construct your own commentaries on ancient texts, and view commentaries others have made. We will soon bring online features for instructors in the Classical Languages to help their advanced classes not only read their assigned texts, but develop ways to critically engage with those texts, both in understanding linguistic constructions and engaging with historical context and textual reception.

• Some sample texts:
• Caesar, Gallic Wars.
• Sallust, Catiline's Conspiracy.
• Cicero, On The Republic.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica.
• Herodotus, The Histories.
• Xenophon, Anabasis.

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