Saturday, September 2, 2017

EpiDoc News: New digital publishing tool: EpiDoc Front-End Services

New digital publishing tool: EpiDoc Front-End Services
Friday 1 September 2017
Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dr Gabriel Bodard, Reader in Digital Classics at the ICS, is leading the EpiDoc Front-End Services project (https://github.com/EpiDoc/EFES). EFES will be a free, easy to use, customizable platform for the online publication of inscriptions and other ancient texts, including indexing, search interface, geographical visualisation and integration with linked open data. The project employs Jamie Norrish, in Wellington, New Zealand, a digital humanities researcher and author of Kiln, one of the key components behind EFES, who is responsible for developing, customizing and technical documentation; and Polina Yordanova, in Sofia, Bulgaria, a Classics graduate with experience of teaching linguistic and epigraphic technologies to classicists, who will coordinate the design, specification, and user documentation.
This platform will be based on existing software, and receive input from scholars involved in some of the leading digital epigraphy projects around the world (among which EAGLE Europeana Network, Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, US Epigraphy, Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions, Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea). The unique value of this project is that non-technical users will be able to publish their digital texts with minimal training, simply by selecting from a menu of specialized features. The project team will produce documentation and provide 

training workshops for philologists and historians who already use digital encoding in their projects. The flexibility that comes with this customisation will also help reduce the artificial barriers between the study of ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the rest of the world.
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Open Access Journal: Rursus: Poiétique, réception et réécriture des textes antiques

[First posted in AWOL 6 January 2009. Updated 2 September 2017]

Rursus: Poiétique, réception et réécriture des textes antiques
ISSN électronique 1951-669X
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La revue numérique Rursus est consacrée à des études portant sur la récriture. Elle a été conçue par les chercheurs de langues anciennes de l’Université de Nice, réunis de 2003 à 2007 dans la jeune équipe LA.LI.A, et est aujourd'hui publiée par le CEPAM (UMR 6130). La littérature dite ‘au second degré’ n’est pas une zone érudite, marginale, voire décadente du champ littéraire, mais la clé même de ce champ, puisque le régime original et originel de l’écriture est le second degré. Cette conviction d’une nature foncièrement hypertextuelle de la création n’est pas un dogme mais une attention de fond aux facteurs de mutation, de détournement et de renouvellement de la tradition.

Appels à communication

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Friday, September 1, 2017

Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: A weekly Latin podcast about anything

Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: A weekly Latin podcast about anything
Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast
Quomodo Dicitur? is a weekly Latin podcast about anything. In each episode Augustus, Iustus, and Iason chat about a particular topic, from life in the desert, to our favorite sports, to the kinds of hijinks we get up to on the weekends.
Our goal is to provide meaningful, contextualized Latin input. It might get messy. Sometimes we’ll make mistakes. But we do hope it will be fun.

QDP Ep 63: Cum Alexandro Veronensi

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Haec est altera pars eius colloquii, quod Iustus cum Alexandro Veronensi habuit Matriti in Hispania. Agitur de conventu CAELO et de anno scholastico mox venturo. (Prima pars est Sermo Raedarius qui hic audiri potest!) In quas res ad annum scholasticum aut ad autumnum pertinentes maxima cum exspectatione prospicitis? Certiores nos faciatis… Read more »

QDP Ep 62: De Amicitia (pars prima)

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Hoc in colloquio Augustus et Iustus et Iason de libro “De Amicitia” nomine colloqui incipiunt. Quae dicta, memoriae digna, Ciceronis velitis nos tractare? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod62. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 62 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and Jason Slanga… Read more »

QDP Ep 61: De Colloquio Tandem Redintegrato

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Hoc in colloquio tres amici tandem iterum una versantur. Umquamne legistis opus Ciceronis de Amicitia? Quin legatis et proponatis quosdam locos nobis tractandos? Quod facere potestis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod61. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 61 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and Jason Slanga… Read more »

QDP Ep 60: De Amicitia

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Hoc in colloquio Iustus tandem revenit ad amicitiam tractandam. Suntne vobis amici quibuscum Latine colloqui soletis? Quas amicorum proprietates magni ducitis? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod60. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 60 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and Jason Slanga is licensed… Read more »

QDP Ep 59: In Ipso Maeniano

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Hoc in colloquio, Augustus et Iustus, Iasone absente, in ipso maeniano Argillamontano cum amicis sermones caedunt. Ubi placet vobis cum amicis garrire? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod59. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 59 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and Jason Slanga is… Read more »

QDP Ep 58: De Itineribus

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Hoc in colloquio, Augustus et Iason, Iusto absente, de itineribus et de terris alienis invisendis colloquuntur. Quas terras invisendi cupidi estis? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod58. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 58 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and Jason Slanga is licensed… Read more »

QDP Ep 56: De Lusibus (cum Annica)

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Hoc in colloquio, Augustus et Iason et Annica, Iusto absente, de lusibus colloquuntur et “rogationes viginti” ludunt. Qui ludi vobis placent? Quibus cum iuvenibus luditis? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod56. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 56 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and… Read more »

QDP Ep 55: De Animalibus (cum Annica)

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Hoc in colloquio, Augustus et Iason, Iusto absente, cum Annica Ahlstrom, amica magistraque optima, de animalibus et de discipulis parvulis docendis colloquuntur. Umquamne discipulos iuvenes docuistis? Quas fabulas, quas methodos adhibuistis? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod55. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 55 by… Read more »

QDP Ep 54: In Maeniano

Jason Slanga   June 26, 2017   1 Comment on QDP Ep 54: In Maeniano
Hoc in colloquio, Augustus et Iustus et Iason in maenianis sedentes de societate SALVI colloquuntur. Quas fabulas (sive historias) inter amicos in maenianis referre soletis? Certiores nos faciatis aut hac in pagina (infra) aut pipiando (“tweeting”) @QDicitur–adicite #QDPod54. Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast: Episode 54 by Justin Slocum Bailey, Gus Grissom, and… Read more »

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Eidolon News: Introducing #Syllabi: collecting some of the best writing about Classics-related topics that are relevant to current events.

Introducing #Syllabi
Whenever a topic related to Classics enters the mainstream media discourse — like this summer’s discussion about what it meant that several members of the Trump administration (both current and former) profess to be fans of Thucydides — I brace myself. Too often, the discourse in articles about the phenomenon is at a fairly low level. Generalizations about what an author like Thucydides “means” abound (as though there were only one way to read Thucydides!). And when classical scholars do decide to weigh in on social media and blogs, their nuanced and thoughtful contributions get far less attention than they deserve.
But we can change that. I’m thrilled to announce a new feature for Eidolon: virtual syllabi, collecting some of the best writing about Classics-related topics that are relevant to current events.
One of the healthiest and most exciting trends in public academic engagement of recent years is the collectively sourced virtual syllabus of texts that can help make sense of confusing and disturbing events. Ferguson Syllabus, Trump Syllabus (versions one, two, and three), and the recent All Monuments Must Fall syllabus are just a few examples that come to my mind, but there are other excellent syllabi as well.
Many of these syllabi, although not all, were crowdsourced. We’ve decided to go in a slightly different direction for now by finding individual scholars with expertise in the field to provide the first iteration of the syllabus. But we hope that others will suggest more sources to add, and we’ll update the syllabi as they do.
Additionally, because we’re Eidolon, we’re going to make sure to incorporate sources in these syllabi that go outside the normal range of scholarly articles and books. Do you know of an excellent blog post, internet think piece, or Twitter thread on the topic? Suggest it!
Tomorrow we’ll publish our first syllabus, led by Neville Morley, who has written a great deal about the online reception of Thucydides. Morley’s syllabus will provide context to help readers understand this summer’s somewhat surprising revelations about Thucydides in the White House.
If you have suggestions to add to this syllabus, add them as comments on the article itself. And if you have an idea for a different topic for a syllabus, send it to us at pitches@eidolon.pub.
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Katalog zentralanatolischer Siedlungen des 2. und vorhellenistischen 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr. in neueren Survey-Berichten (KatzaS)

Katalog zentralanatolischer Siedlungen des 2. und vorhellenistischen 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr. in neueren Survey-Berichten (KatzaS)
erstellt von Dietrich Sürenhagen (Heidelberg)
Citatio: D. Sürenhagen, hethiter.net/:KatzaS (v. 1.0, 2017)
Seit den späten 80er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts hat die Zahl archäologischer Geländebegehungen (Surveys) auf dem Boden der heutigen Türkei sprunghaft zugenommen, so dass inzwischen weite Bereiche des Landes als flächendeckend erforscht gelten dürfen; vgl. die Kartierung anatolischer Survey-Gebiete auf dem Stand von 2010 in Barjamovic 2011, Map 5 nach S. 76. Dies gilt insbesondere für den zentralanatolischen Bereich (İç Anadolu Bölgesi), der aus den vier Regionen Konya (Konya Bölümü), Oberer Sakarya-Bereich (Yukarı Sakarya Bölümü), Mittlerer Kızılırmak-Bereich (Orta Kızılırmak Bölümü) und Oberer Kızılırmak-Bereich (Yukarı Kızılırmak Bölümü) besteht. Das Gesamtgebiet ist in 14 Provinzen (İl) – Aksaray, Ankara, Çankırı, Çorum, Eskişehir, Karaman, Kayseri, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Konya, Nevşehir, Niğde, Sivas und Yozgat – mit insgesamt 196 Verwaltungsbezirken (İlçe) untergliedert.

Insgesamt wurden in Zentralanatolien bei Geländebegehungen mehrere tausend archäologische Fundstätten – bewohnte Höhlen, Lagerplätze, Einzelgehöfte, Burgen und Siedlungen von Dorf- bis Stadtgröße, Friedhöfe und Kultstätten – entdeckt, die eine Zeitspanne vom Paläolithikum bis in die osmanische Zeit repräsentieren. Damit verglichen ist die Zahl der durch Ausgrabungen untersuchten Fundstätten verschwindend gering. Eine einheitliche Katalogisierung all dieser Fundplätze fand bisher nicht statt.

Unter den Kulturepochen Zentralanatoliens sind zwei in historischer Hinsicht von besonderem Interesse. Dies ist zum einen die Zeit der an altanatolische Fürstenhöfe attachierten altassyrischen Handelskolonien zu Beginn und während des frühen 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr., zum anderen der nachfolgende Aufstieg des hethitischen Staates vom Stadtstaat zum Großreich, der sich über einen jahrhundertelangen Zeitraum während desselben Jahrtausends vollzog. Beide Epochen unterscheiden sich von denen der vorangegangenen und nachfolgenden Zeit durch ein besonderes Ausmaß an Schriftlichkeit, bezeugt durch zehntausende Schriftzeugnisse in verschiedenen Sprachen, die ein bezeichnendes Licht auf praktisch alle Bereiche altanatolischer Gesellschaften im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. werfen...

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Hethitology Portal News: 3D Archive of Cuneiform Tablets

Hethitology Portal News: 3D Archive of Cuneiform Tablets
The Hethitology Portal Mainz (<www.hethiter.net>) started its new 3D Archiv on the occasion of the 10th International Congress of Hittitology.

It hosts more than fifteen hundred 3D models of cuneiform tablets and fragments for scholarly study in addition to the well known Mainzer Photo Archiv.

So far the models are  accessible via the Konkordanz der hethitischen Keilschrifttafeln.

The website was developed by Gerfrid G.W. Müller and Denis Fisseler.

This development and hosting is funded by the University of Würzburg, the Technical University of Dortmund and the Gisela and Reinhold Häcker Foundation.

Thanks to all sponsors, authorities and colleagues in Museums around the world who made this new kind of collection possible.
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CGRN: Collection of Greek Ritual Norms

CGRN: Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
The project issues from the reassessment of a category of inscriptions which have come to fore in the study of ancient Greek religion. These are the texts known as leges sacrae or “sacred laws”, collected by F.Sokolowski in the 1950s and 60s (LSAM, LSS, LSCG), and more recently by E. Lupu in 2005 (NGSL).

The validity and the utility of this epigraphical category has recently been questioned. Articles published as part of the preliminary investigations of the CGRN project have broadened this discussion. Please consult: “Beyond Greek ‘Sacred Laws’” and “Codifying ‘Sacred Laws’”. In the present collection, instead of remaining under the lens of “sacred laws”, we have chosen to focus on the normative character of inscriptions relating to ancient Greek rituals, and in particular on the two large subjects of sacrifice and purification.

The result of this reappraisal is an original Digital Humanities resource, funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (Belgium). The Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN) is a website which conforms to the general guidelines of TEI Epidoc XML. Its primary goal is to gather epigraphical material for the study of Greek rituals and to make these sources widely available, in a clear and accessible form, with translations in English and in French (for some conventions, see here).

In addition, the Collection aims to innovate by providing detailed, research-oriented tools for scholars wishing to investigate the two principal subjects of sacrifice and purification, notably the extensive lists of “Themes” identifiable under the “Browse” and “Search” functionalities of the website. To orient yourself and to consult the conceptual “Themes” analysed in the CGRN, please click here. You are cordially invited to browse, search, or simply to start exploring sacrificial rituals in the calendar of Thorikos, CGRN 32, as well as the purifications listed in the regulation from Kos, CGRN 85 (for a concordance, see here).
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