Lexeis

Lexeis

About Lexeis

Welcome to the Lexeis page! The goal of this project is to produce modern author-specific lexica, so we use the term "Lexeis," following the practice of ancient authors of author-specific lexica (like Apollonius Sophista (Homer), Timaeus (Plato), Harpocration (Oratos), and Erotian (Hippocrates)).

Our first project was the Thucydidean Lexicon; our current project is the Platonic Lexicon

For more on the Thucydidean Lexicon, view the lexicon's own about page.

For a screencast on the features of the Platonic Lexicon, see this video.

For screencasts describing the features of each lexicon (as of January 2022) view Jeffrey Rusten's home page.

See the next steps page for more on the future of the project.

Current Personnel

• Professor Jeffrey Rusten (jsr5@cornell.edu) initiated and coordinates the project, developed the information categories and their distribution into different views, and wrote sample articles and the guidelines for others.
• Ethan Della Rocca (ehd35@cornell.edu) (Graduate student in Classics at Cornell) writes the programs for the digitization of Ast's Lexicon Platonicum and updates the original website.
• Dante King (dgk63@cornell.edu) (Graduate student in Classics at Cornell) writes the programs for the digitization of Ast's Lexicon Platonicum and updates the original website.
• Kostas Mantzavinos (km764@cornell.edu, Cornell '22) works on the digitization of Ast's Lexicon Platonicum.
• Erin Robichaud (erobichaud21@wooster.edu, College of Wooster '21) works on the digitization of Ast's Lexicon Platonicum.
• Grace Ryan (ger76@cornell.edu, Cornell '24) works on the digitization of Ast's Lexicon Platonicum.

Emeriti

• Grant Storey (gjs224@cornell.edu, 2018-2019) designed and built the first iteration of this website for Thucydides and Plato.
• Julia Miller (Cornell ’20, June 2017-January 2018) corrected the original spreadsheet, added stem-, compound- and part of speech-information, and researched semantic classification schemes.
• Dimitrios Sparis (Cornell ’20, June 2018-June 2020) researched synonyms and antonyms and wrote more than 50 articles thus far.

Credits

We would like to recognize the following individuals and organizations for their contributions to this project:

• Professor Helma Dik (University of Chicago) provided a variety of foundational resources, including the the fully tagged Thucydides and Plato texts and database containing parsed forms.
• The Perseus Project at Tufts University (Professor Gregory Crane) is the ultimate source of the current version of the reading text, the digitized version of Betant's lexicon, and assistance with form parsing.
• Students of The College of Wooster (Professor Edith Foster) researched and wrote articles relating to political vocabulary in Thucydides (2020).

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