“Comprehensive Odyssey”, a digital critical repository of the Odyssey and its sources: perspectives and consequences.

“Comprehensive Odyssey”, a digital critical repository of the Odyssey and its sources: perspectives and consequences.

Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

Chiara Salvagni

• Digital Humanities

This dissertation includes a digital proof of concept called the “Comprehensive Odyssey”, which provides the text of the first 105 lines of the Odyssey, the secondary sources for each line and the scholia. This digital project was the focus of an analysis of the possibilities of the digital medium to produce a digital critical edition or rather a digital critical repository of the Homeric poems and their indirect tradition. The dissertation presents all the stages in this analysis. As this edition deals with Homer’s Odyssey, one chapter here takes into consideration the present situation in Homeric scholarship. The analysis also embraces an overview of the theory of oral composition, traditional referentiality, notional fixity and the process from oral to print to digital, bearing in mind that the project deals with a poem whose origin is not in the form of a written composition, but of an oral composition in performance. To assess the possibilities of creating a digital project concerning Homer, a review has been carried out of digital projects in Classics, some of which are centred on Homer. We also discuss the theories both of digital editing and of textual editing. Assessing digital theories helps when deciding about which framework to use for a digital project, and it was what assisted us in understanding the difficulties that would have to be overcome in order to make this project feasible. Moreover, this dissertation includes a detailed overview of all the technical challenges encountered while producing it, by this meaning the encoding process with XML and TEI and the visualisation process with XSLT. One chapter aims to provide examples of research that can stem from the collection of secondary sources and their understanding as fragmentary authors, together with an awareness of the problems arising from the creation of an edition from printed critical editions. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the chances that this proof of concept may become a fully functional project and help in understanding the Homeric tradition. Most importantly, this proof of concept would be a never-ending repository which, with the help of encoding in XML and TEI, would always remain open to changes and improvements. The hindrances that the digital medium faces, such as copyright and ‘comprehensiveness’, are also pointed out. The concept of crowdsourcing is discussed, as it seems that it might serve to complete the encoding of all the sources of the “Comprehensive Odyssey”. Finally, the outcomes that might result from the above-mentioned ‘voyage’ are examined, leading to the conclusion that a project such as the one we envisaged is too ambitious, since it contains several different aspects within one project, yet is not a failure. It is a worthwhile journey that helps us understand the importance of studying orality in connection with collaboration in the digital medium and the value of studies on quotations and fragmentary authors for the secondary sources.

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	King's College London
Supervisors/Advisors	Giovan Battista D'Alessio (Supervisor) John David Lavagnino (Supervisor)
Award date	2017

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Medea, a Performance History 
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Medea, a performance history is a multimedia/interactive guide to the production history of Euripides’ Medea – an ancient Greek tragedy about a mother who, betrayed by her husband, exacts revenge by killing her children. First performed nearly 2,500 years ago, and continually reinvented since, Medea remains the most controversial yet alluring female role in the history of theatre worldwide.

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2 April 2019: In this release we complete our coverage of Assembly decrees datable to before the late 450s BC, adding IG I³ 2, 3 (and the related dedication, SEG 51.48), 4, 8, and lightly revising IG I³ 1, 5, 7 and 6 (which will be further revised shortly in the context of AIUK). We also publish the dedications by soldiers and military officials, IG II³ 4, 243 - 328 and 528, Bugh, Cavalry Inscriptions 1, and some related texts: decrees honouring a phylarch and a military figure; two decrees of the Paraloi, IG II² 1254, Petzl, Das Wrack 3; a decree of the prodromoi. We have continued adding up-to-date Greek texts where they are not available online elsewhere in open access, focussing in this release mainly on important 5th-century inscriptions: OR 108, 121, 136, 137, 138, 139, 148, 150, 152, 154, 155, 157, 161, 166, 170, 178, 182, 183A, 188, 189, IG I³ 5, 82, 131, 236B. The corresponding translations and notes have been lightly revised. We have also added an up-to-date Greek text of the unique Athenian decree of 302/1 BC honouring a public slave. For a full list of the 94 new translations published today see Publication 2 April 2019. In January we published AIO Papers 10, a short teaching guide to materials available on AIO, with FAQs.

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Open Access Journal: Erytheia: Revista de Estudios Bizantinos y Neogriegos

 [First posted in AWOL 9 February 2011, updated [links repaired] 1 April 2019]

Erytheia: Revista de Estudios Bizantinos y Neogriegos
ISSN: 0213-1986

Erytheia. Revista de Estudios Bizantinos y Neogriegos fue fundada en 1982 como órgano de expresión de la Asociación Cultural Hispano-Helénica. El número 0 de 1982 apareció bajo el nombre de Hespérides, que para el segundo volumen se cambió por el de Erytheia, una de las Hespérides más conocidas. Ha sido dirigida por Pedro Bádenas de la Peña (1982-1992), Luis Gil (1993-2005) y José M. Floristán (2006–). En los últimos cuarenta años ha sido el principal órgano de difusión de los estudios y trabajos de investigación en el campo de la bizantinística y del neohelenismo. Erytheia está abierta a todos los estudiosos que deseen utilizar sus páginas para dar a conocer trabajos originales de investigación. Publica estudios y notas relacionados con los diversos campos de la civilización bizantina y neohelénica (lengua, literatura, historia, arte, geografía, filosofía, derecho, etc.). Los trabajos pasan un proceso de selección por pares ciegos. Erytheia cumple los siguientes requisitos de calidad: CNEAI (13/18), ANECA (16/22), LATINDEX (31/33). Está indizada y evaluada en las siguientes bases de datos: DIALNET, DICE, ISOC, MIAR, Periodical Index Online, Regesta Imperii.

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