Monday, December 8, 2025

Myria

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Myria is a treebank-based vocabulary tool. It contains about 6000 entries, all of which have a frequency of at least 50 occurrences in a large automatically analyzed corpus. For each lemma, the tool offers the following information:

  • in which authors and genres is this lemma strikingly frequent?
  • which words are semantically related?
  • in which collostructions (collocations and constructions) does the lemma occur?

Myria does not focus on offering translations and lexicographical information. For this, links to other online initiatives, such as Logeion and Wiktionary, are established.

This tool is developed by Toon Van Hal and Alek Keersmaekers. Frédéric Pietowski created the technical frame of the responsive website, and Toon Van Hal dressed it up. We are indebted to our student assistants Martijn Jaspers, Martijn Windelinckx, Mathieu Lonbois & Yoran Joosten for making first versions of translations of the Greek sentences in Chilia. The tool is still under active development (see FAQ).

Chilia

An educational subpart of Myria, Chilia contains ca. 1000 very frequent words. Each word is clarified by means of an authentic sentence, which is in turn exclusively built from words which also belong to the Chilia list (with the exception of proper names). Thanks to this feature, learners of Ancient Greek are stimulated to study vocabulary in context by carefully working through these example sentences. For each sentence, a treebank is available (we have treebanked most sentences ourselves, but fortunately we could also rely on already existing treebanks).

More information

  • Van Hal, Toon. 2019. “Het Chilia-project. Duizend woorden over duizend woorden.” Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, ed. by Tine Scheijnen & Berenice Verhelst, 95–97. Gent: Universiteit Gent | Skribis.
  • Van Hal, Toon & Alek Keersmaekers. 2020. “Visualizing the Ancient Greek forest through the trees: how treebanks can advance the education of classical languages” Les Études classiques 88 (forthcoming)
  • Keersmaekers, Alek, Wouter Mercelis, Colin Swaelens & Toon Van Hal. 2019. “Creating, Enriching and Valorising Treebanks of Ancient Greek: the ongoing Pedalion-project.” Paris. Available at: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/proceedings/papers/paper_68.pdf.

 

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LaLaLexiT. Late Latin Lexicon in Transition

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LaLaLexiT. Late Latin Lexicon in Transition è un progetto dedicato al lessico latino della tarda antichità, un’epoca di mutamenti profondi, che hanno plasmato la storia culturale successiva. Quali parole sono state utilizzate dalle fonti letterarie latine per testimoniare la ‘transizione’ tardoantica? A quali espressioni, in prosa e in poesia, è stato affidato il compito di rappresentare – e forse di interpretare e indirizzare – tale evoluzione? ‘Rinascita’, ‘conversione’, ‘errore’, ‘vizio’, ‘riforma’, ‘potere’: sono solo alcuni concetti ricchi di sfumature che trovano forma concreta in molti dei termini latini che verranno indagati nel glossario digitale LaLaLexiT, il primo specificamente dedicato a questo tema.

Copyright This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

 

 
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New Open Access Journal: Cahiers du Centre Gustave-Glotz: Nouvelle Série

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Les Cahiers du Centre Gustave-Glotz, revue du Laboratoire « Anthropologie Histoire des Mondes Anciens » (ANHIMA) ont pour ambition de faire dialoguer le monde grec et le monde romain, en privilégiant les travaux qui en éclairent les pratiques institutionnelles, sociales et culturelles, de l’époque classique à l’antiquité tardive.

En plus d’accueillir des articles individuels de nature philologique, épigraphique et papyrologique, la revue publie régulièrement des dossiers thématiques, issus de journées d’étude et de séminaires collectifs, ainsi que le Bulletin annuel de la Société française d’études épigraphiques sur Rome et le monde romain (SFER). Les articles sont évalués selon un processus de peer review.

Les Cahiers du Centre Gustave-Glotz sont nés en 1990, sous la forme d’un recueil de contributions autour d’un thème (« Du pouvoir dans l’antiquité »), coordonné par Claude Nicolet (qui siégea au comité scientifique des Cahiers jusqu’à sa disparition, le 24 décembre 2010) et édité par Droz, à Genève. Dès l’année suivante, les Cahiers se sont transformés en revue annuelle, éditée par De Boccard et, depuis le volume XXXII (2021), nouvelle série. 
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Varia

Dossier « Gouverner l’Empire Romain »

  • Tributorum necessitas
    Vues et pratiques de la fiscalité avant et après la réorganisation tétrarchique
  • Giovanni A. Cecconi
  • 05 Dicembre 2025

Dossier « Actes de la Journée d’études de la SFER du 11 juin 2022 »

 

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Open Access Journal: Axon: Iscrizioni storiche greche

[First posted in AWOL 7 May 2018, updated 8 December 2025]

Axon: Iscrizioni storiche greche 
e-ISSN: 2532-6848 
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La rivista Axon. Iscrizioni storiche greche intende colmare una lacuna nel panorama dell’esperienza scientifica e didattica della Storia e dell’Epigrafia greca. Ciascun numero raccoglie una serie di contributi specifici dedicati a singole iscrizioni greche selezionate in base alla loro rilevanza storica. Per ogni documento è prevista un’articolata scheda digitale, costruita secondo standard e lessico condivisi, che confluisce in un Database liberamente consultabile secondo una maschera di ricerca duttile e mirata (http://virgo.unive.it/venicepigraphy/axon/public/); a questa scheda si accompagna un commento originale e approfondito su tutti gli aspetti paleografici, linguistici, storici, istituzionali, culturali e contestuali del documento in oggetto proposto dagli specialisti del settore.

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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Open Access Monograph Series: Studi ciprioti

e-ISSN: 2724-3648
ISSN: 2724-279X 

La serie Studi ciprioti promuove la pubblicazione di ricerche innovative e interdisciplinari su Cipro.

In tutte le fasi della sua storia plurimillenaria, Cipro si è caratterizzata significativamente per la coesistenza di una peculiare identità insulare e di una spiccata propensione alla connettività. Tali prerogative la rendono una realtà geografica poliedrica e, al tempo stesso, un laboratorio permanente di elaborazione di una koiné mediterranea.

Con l'intento di interpretare in profondità il fenomeno cipriota, la collana promuove la pubblicazione di monografie e raccolte di studi, in italiano, inglese e altre lingue strategiche per la comunità scientifica internazionale. I volumi nella collana trattano di Cipro dal punto di vista archeologico e storico, artistico e letterario, linguistico e filologico, religioso e antropologico, dalla preistoria al mondo contemporaneo. Incoraggiando lo studio di Cipro da ogni prospettiva nel contesto delle scienze umane, questa nuova serie colma un’evidente lacuna nel mondo delle pubblicazioni accademiche e aspira a essere considerata un modello innovativo per altri studi regionali.

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  • A Land for Strangers
  • Non-Native Individuals and Communities in Cyprus
  • Carlotta Brignone, Lorenzo Calvelli, Giulia Gollo, Lorenzo Mazzotta
  • 24 Luglio 2025

  • What happens when ‘strangers’ become part of the very fabric of a place? In Cyprus, newcomers have long shaped the island’s history, enriching rather than disrupting the cohesion of local cultures. Seven interdisciplinary essays – framed by a thought-provoking preface and an introspective afterword – explore the roles and contributions of non-native individuals and communities in Cypriot society, from prehistory to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, this volume offers insights into Cyprus’s identity as a site of connectivity and interaction, suggesting how its complex past may hold enduring relevance for contemporary societies.

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Open Access Monograph Series: Bibliotheca Trimalchionis Tertia

e-ISSN: 3034-9095
ISSN: 3034-9486  
Tres bibliothecas habeo, unam Graecam, alteram Latinam. Così, nel Satyricon, Trimalcione si rivolge al retore Agamennone, senza menzionare la lingua o le lingue delle opere contenute nella sua terza biblioteca. Secondo una delle possibili interpretazioni del passo, questa biblioteca sarebbe stata ‘orientale’ ma Trimalcione – egli pure orientale – avrebbe evitato di menzionarla per un complesso di inferiorità nei confronti della cultura dominante greco-romana dell’epoca. La Bibliotheca Trimalchionis Tertia, in linea con tale memoria, intende valorizzare tradizioni ‘altre’ rispetto a quella occidentale, raccogliendo studi innovativi non solo nei contenuti ma anche nella capacità di concorrere all’elaborazione di una metodologia critico-testuale che si ponga in un dialogo costruttivo con quella della tradizione filologica classica. La collana è dedicata alla pubblicazione di edizioni critiche di testi, prodotti dall’antichità fino al principio dell’epoca moderna, in arabo, aramaico, armeno, cinese, copto, ebraico, georgiano, giapponese, giudeo-arabo e giudeo-persiano, lingue semitiche dell’Etiopia, persiano, siriaco e turco, e di studi storico-letterari e linguistici, nella forma di monografie e di volumi collettanei, relativi alle aree linguistiche sopra citate.  

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Open Access Monograph Series: Alterum Byzantium

e-ISSN: 3035-3726
ISSN: 3035-3556 

The series publishes monographs and collections devoted to the history and literature of the Byzantine world, as well as its surviving forms and expressions in modern times, through a traditional, close analysis of primary sources (in Greek and other languages of the Christian East), but sensitive to current research issues and open to innovative methodological approaches.

Each volume in the series focuses on a specific Byzantine or post-Byzantine literary work or coherent corpus of texts which are considered to make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Byzantine world, particularly (but not only) of religiosity and spirituality. The range of sources studied includes, but is not limited to, writings belonging to ascetic and monastic literature, homiletics, hagiography and hymnography, polemics and controversial literature, theology, dogmatics, etc.

Primary sources will be explored through various types of contributions. Priority will be given to critical editions and/or translations of edited works into modern languages, which are still too scarce in Byzantine studies. Scholars are particularly encouraged to submit translations of important works whose contents remain hardly accessible. Other contributions that will be welcomed are: in-depth and comprehensive analyses of the manuscript traditions of the selected works, with the necessary côté of palaeographical and codicological assessment of the examined witnesses, not excluding iconographical and historical-artistic testimonies where appropriate; systematic commentaries on already edited sources, whose text should also be included; comparative studies of the social, institutional, cultural, intellectual and political contexts and implications of the sources.

Alterum Byzantium aims to fill a gap in the international editorial panorama by offering a specialised series dedicated (though not exclusively) to Byzantine religious culture, which finds some similar parallels in series on the (Western) Middle Ages. Its specificity, however, lies in the centrality given to primary sources and in its ambition to promote solid research tools for a better understanding of a specific but predominant part of Byzantine literary production. The series is open to contributions in the following languages: French, English, Italian and German.

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