L’École française d’Athènes a créé en 1973 les Suppléments au Bulletin de correspondance hellénique.
Cette collection rassemble les ouvrages collectifs issus des programmes
de recherches, des publications thématiques issues des recherches
archéologiques, des monographies. Elle couvre une vaste chronologie
allant de la préhistoire aux temps présents.
Poleis
e città, culti e rappresentazioni religiose, thiasoi orfici,
organizzazione del commercio, «giustizia privata» nella periferia
nord-orientale del mondo greco (secoli VII-IV a.c.)
Με απόφαση της Επιτροπής Εκδόσεων της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής δημιουργήθηκε η
σειρά Παραρτημάτων της Αριάδνης (Ariadne Supplement Series, ISSN
2623-4726). Πρόκειται για μια επιστημονική σειρά ανοιχτής πρόσβασης με
κριτές που ενθαρρύνει τη δημοσίευση ελληνόγλωσσων ή ξενόγλωσσων
επιστημονικών μονογραφιών, επεξεργασμένων πρακτικών συνεδρίων και
τιμητικών τόμων. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι πρέπει να υποβάλουν στην Επιτροπή
Εκδόσεων της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής (dean@phl.uoc.gr)
αναλυτική πρόταση στην οποία να τεκμηριώνεται η επιστημονική συνεισφορά
της μελέτης. Η νέα σειρά αριθμεί ήδη τρεις τόμους. Οι δύο κυκλοφόρησαν
τον Δεκέμβριο
του 2018 και διακινούνται από τις Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης (www.cup.gr).
Ariadne Supplements is an open access peer-reviewed series that
welcomes scholarly publications occupying the space between a journal
and a book. These publications are usually Festschriften and conference
volumes that have some thematic unity but not the kind that
one expects from a book. Prospective contributors are advised to send
detailed proposals with special emphasis on the scholarly contribution
of the proposed project to the Editorial Board of the series either by
email (dean@phl.uoc.gr) or mail to the School of Philosophy, Gallos
Campus, Rethymnon 74100, Greece.
Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Paper 2026:1 <www.orientlab.net/pubs> Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition to the region of Gaziantep ISSN 2284-2780 doi: 10.12877/grpop202601 Version: 28 February 2026
Area C is located on the acropolis of Tilmen Höyük (a 5-hectares mound rising along the banks of the Kara Su stream in the Islahiye Valley), along its southern part just next to the MBA Royal Palace A (Fig. 1, Pl. I: 1). Resting on the latter’s northern boundary wall are in fact the monumental structures of area C (Pl. I: 2), which were first brought to light by U. Bahadır Alkım during the 1960–63 campaigns and was by him denoted as Building C (Alkım 1960; 1962a; 1962b; 1962c: 458–462; 1964a; 1964b: 503–507; 1965; Duru 2003: 63–68; 2013: 88–90; for a summary see Duru 2024); it was then restored by Refik Duru in 2002 (Duru 2003: 79-90, pls. 42-54; 2013: 108) and newly excavated by the Turco- Italian Expedition in 2003 and 2004 (Marchetti 2004: 195; 2005: 130; 2006a: 200– 201; 2008: 354).
L’Association
Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (AIPMA) a été fondée à
Cologne en 1989 par un groupe de chercheurs de divers pays. Elle a pour
but de promouvoir les recherches scientifiques et techniques dans le
domaine de la peinture murale antique et d’établir des liens entre
chercheurs, techniciens ou institutions. L’Association organise, tous
les trois ans, un colloque international; le dernier s’est tenu à
Lausanne du 12 au 16 septembre 2016. Les actes en sont régulièrement
publiés. L’Association édite également un Bulletin bibliographique :
Apelles. À l’heure actuelle, L’Association compte des membres dans une
vingtaine de pays.
The Hungarian Academy in Jerusalem officially opened its doors on 1 July
2025, after the Hungarian Government made the historical decision to
establish a permanent scientific and cultural presence of the Hungarian
state in the Holy City. It is the second time that Hungary established a
state academy abroad, under its national flag, after the 1927 erection
of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, a century ago. In 2025, we are
celebrating the bicentennial of the 1825 foundation of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in Budapest as well, alongside the commemoration of
the 130th anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian Historical
Institute in Rome (erected by Bishop Vilmos Fraknoi in 1895).
We have an article that is about to appear in the Journal of Open Humanities Data
on “Perseus and the Open-Source Ecosystem of Greco-Roman Studies,” but I
thought I would precede that more formal discussion with a very recent
example of what you can do in this open ecosystem. The discussion below
talks about how quickly we were able to provide a usable first digital
version for the Dionysiaca of Nonnus. For now, Nonnus appears in the exploratory Perseus Multitext Viewer and is hosted on Github pages: https://gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp/.
I was looking at Hypotactic,
David Chamberlain’s foundational site with metrical analysis of Greek
and Latin poetry — 250,000 lines (probably more) and found this update
from July 12, 2026.
David was not kidding about having made a lot of corrections — I went through and checked the GitHub repository.
Because David had put so much work into
cleaning up our file and adding metrical analysis, I thought about
bumping Nonnus up — way up — the list of those works I am experimenting
with in the exploratory Perseus Multitext Viewer.
Adding the Greek was easy enough but most
readers also want an English translation. I looked back at the 1940 Loeb
edition and was very pleased to see that W. H. D. Rouse, one of my
favorite British translators from the 20th century, had produced the
translation. After I looked into converting the Rouse translation into
digital form, however, I thought to check ToposText and discovered that their Nonnus was Rouse and was based on a digital version that Theoi.com had created.
If we were entering the translation, we would try to keep the notes in
place and perhaps add some other features, but we can’t do everything
and we are very behind in providing translations.
ToposText uses HTML. Not so long ago, I
would have written a program to convert their HTML into XML. Now I was
able to ask OpenAI’s 5.6 Sol model to do the conversion for the whole
work. Thus we had the traditional Greek text with English translation.
But, of course, David Chamberlain had
labored over the text of Nonnus so that he could produce a metrical
analysis of the poem. Chamberlain publishes his work under a Creative
Commons license. Several years ago, I wrote a program to convert the
HTML format that David has used into something that I found more
convenient. This summer I asked Claude to write a program that would do
the conversion — which it did in a few minutes of work. A handful of
issues arose but I soon had what seems a plausible first version of the
Chamberlain analysis.
And, of course, we can provide more
support than just adding a translation. Giuseppe Celano had published
morpho-syntactic analyses (a Treebank) for each of the c. 125,000 words
in the Dionysiaca. This provides the dictionary form for each inflected form in the text, as well as its syntactic role and dependency.
Ideally we will add alignments at the word
and phrase level between the Greek source text and translation. When
readers have both translation alignments and treebanks, they can begin
to engage directly with source texts in unfamiliar languages. Automatic
translation alignment, however, remains tricky (though we can do a much
better job thanks to the Ugarit
project). On the other hand, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become
proficient at providing not only literal translations of Greek and Latin
but also word-by-word contextual glosses. We used DeepSeek to augment
Giuseppe Celano’s Opera Graeca Adnotata (OGA) treebank with translations and glosses to provide another layer of support for readers.
Figure 3: OGA Treebank (via Mark Bilby’s reformatting) for Nonnus with glosses and translation added by DeepSeek (deepseek-v4-pro).
Those working with large screens can open
up to seven windows side-by-side, allowing them to compare different
categories of data (or different translations or editions).
Figure 4: Four columns in the Perseus Multitext Viewer.
The automatic glosses are good but not perfect. Thus, we draw upon Helma Dik’s short definitions of Greek
(based originally upon, but a massive improvement over, short
definitions published by Perseus many years ago) to provide a short
explanation for each word. While most users will exploit the glosses as a
reading aid (as with traditional interlinear translations), the digital
glosses can be searched and used for semantic analysis.
Figure 5 shows those words in Homer and in
Nonnus with glosses that contain “anger.” Obviously, we need to
consider English synonyms (e.g., “anger,” “wrath”, “fury” etc.) but we
can use BERT-like systems to locate synonyms and mitigate the problem.
The figure above also includes some basic statistical information so
that readers can assess the significance of the results. In the figure
above, the ranges for the Iliad and Odyssey do not overlap. Thus, by the
metric that we have chosen, we may be 95% confident that “anger” would
be more frequent in the Iliad than the Odyssey if both works were
infinitely large. Again, statistical analysis must be used critically
but we need some to beyond comparing raw numbers when comparing search
results.
Finally, one of the charms of the Dionysiaca is that it refers to places that we can locate on a map. Much of the Odyssey
takes place in a never-never land that later Greeks eagerly linked to
their own world, at least some of us would argue that it is important to
imagine the world of gods and monsters through which Odysseus travels
as being fundamental separate from the world in which humans live. The
authors of later epics wanted to connect myths to their world and often
made sure to locate their events in the geographic models of their time.
ToposText had acquired the translation so that it could link the place
names to their gazetteer and then plot them on a map.
ToposTexts makes their data as well as
their texts available under an open license. We were thus able to
provide a map that illustrate the places mentioned in any book or
passage of the Dionysiaca.
Figure 6: places referenced in book 10 of the Dionysiaca with data published by ToposTexts in the Perseus Multitext Viewer.
A quick look at the fine print above will
show yet another layer of open Digital Classics: the basemaps for the
Greco-Roman world are from the Consortium of Ancient World Mappers.
While LLMs pose a range of challenges (including bot swarms that have crippled Perseus 4),
it is important to emphasize that I would not have been able to create
the integrated reader above this summer if Large Language Models had not
advanced so quickly. I use Gemini (to some extent) and Claude
(primarily) to design the data-structures and to generate the front end.
The reader currently runs on Google Pages and can be moved to Tufts for
long term support. (The source code is here and the data for the reader is here).
LLMs also allowed me to convert the ToposText HTML into Perseus
compatible XML and the Hypotactic HTML into a tab-delimited format. LLMs
also allowed me to fashion a viewer for the ToposText geospatial data
and the CAWM maps.
Conclusion: In the early
21st century, Digital Classicists, with the papyrologists playing a
leading role, adopted the practice of publishing their data under open
licenses. Decades later we can see the benefits compounding, as data
circulates from one project to another, acquiring new features as it
moves. We can create effective new reading environments even for less
read authors such as Nonnus, allowing readers to engage directly with
sources in ways that were not feasible in print culture.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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