Issue 17
Issue 17: Digital Literacies,
2019 (ed. Paul Dilley). This volume demonstrates the rich spread of
digital literacies along a broad spectrum of teaching and research
practices, from classroom engagement with contemporary multimedia
reception of classical themes; the use of online resources by citizen
scientists with little or no classical training, as well as classicists
with little or no familiarity with computers; complex editorial
structures which attempt to integrate historical patterns of textual
transmission with contemporary information structures; and training in
coding which adapts human strategies for identifying word structures to
produce resources for large-scale philological work available through a
basic interface. Digital literacies, as applied to the ancient world,
involve a “big tent” of skills and strategies that are best learned
through practice, whether in formal instructional settings or individual
use.
[From the Introduction] This volume of Classics@
aims to explore and analyze how the present digital turn enables a
renewed theoretical engagement with multimodal ancient literacies.
Cultural transmission in Antiquity was primarily oral, supplemented by
images and texts. Nevertheless, Classicists first employed the term
“literacy” in the singular, according to its 19th-century definition:
the ability to read and write texts. But since the 2000s, the plural form has gained currency, notably in Johnson and Parker’s collection of essays, Ancient Literacies,
which explores literacy from the perspective of “text-oriented events
embedded in particular sociocultural contexts.” Different settings,
kinds, and uses of literacies emerge, often reflecting differing
specializations, competencies, and social hierarchies. In the past
several decades, new digital tools and expanding digital culture have
provided additional opportunities to explore and theorize ancient
literacies.
The connection between digital and ancient
literacies can be elucidated by the of New Literacy Studies, which
explores literacy “in its full range of contexts and practices, not just
cognitive, but social, cultural, historical, and institutional, as
well.” Given this broader perspective, the importance of literacy as it
relates to digital media, including the internet, is steadily being
recognized, even if no clearly defined academic sub-field devoted to it
has emerged. According to the American Library Association, “Digital
literacy is the ability to use information and communication
technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information,
requiring both cognitive and technical skills. ” The articles in this
collection explore various aspects of digital literacies as they relate
to the study of the ancient world; indeed, we use the plural form to
signal their diverse modalities, following Parker and Johnson’s
approach. The multiple contexts, uses, and practices of digital literacy
include pedagogy in and beyond the undergraduate classroom (Tulley);
the building, use, and evaluation of a major online scholarly resource
(Bacalexi and Skarsouli); the use of digital affordances to theorize the
optimal means of presenting ancient medical sources (Reggiani); and the
role of coding, and how to learn it, in the study of ancient languages
(Burns, Hollis, and Johnson).
Contents
Introduction, Paul Dilley, with David Bouvier, Claire Clivaz, and David Hamidovic
Dina Bacalexi and Pinelopi Skarsouli, "Digital Literacies and the Study of Antiquity: Case Studies on Databases."
Patrick J. Burns, Luke Hollis, and Kyle P. Johnson, "The Future of Ancient Literacy: Classical Language Toolkit and Google Summer of Code."
Nicola Reggiani, "Ancient Doctors’ Literacies and the Digital Edition of Papyri of Medical Content."
Christine Tulley, "Exploring the “Flute Girls” of Ancient Greece through Multimodality."
Issue 16
Issue 16: Seven Essays on Sappho,
2017 (ed. Paul G. Johnston). These seven papers are the product of a
graduate seminar led by Gregory Nagy at Harvard in the fall of 2016,
entitled ‘Sappho and her Songmaking’. The scope of the seminar was
wide-ranging, encompassing philological, linguistic, historical,
anthropological, comparative, and reception-based approaches to the
great female poet of antiquity. The student participants in the seminar
likewise came from a variety of different backgrounds: graduates and
undergraduates, classicists and not. This diversity is reflected in the
papers gathered in this collection.
Issue 15
Issue 15: A Concise Inventory of Greek Etymology, 2017 (ed. Olga Levaniouk). The goal of CIGE
is to provide access to etymologies that are important for the study of
Greek culture and that are often not yet referenced in conventional
dictionaries. CIGE represents an understanding of Greek—and
especially Homeric—etymology as part of the formulaic system of early
Greek poetry. The main content is organized in the mode of a dictionary:
each entry appears under a heading or lēmma that indicates the basic
word to be analyzed. Each entry contains a reference to a fuller
analysis, if available, and identifies the author who suggested or
advocates the etymology in question. The editors of the individual
entries are identified by name-stamp and date-stamp at the end of each
entry. Each editor is the owner of his or her own entry as edited.
Issue 14
Issue 14: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century; The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord,
2016 (ed. David F. Elmer and Peter McMurray). In December, 2010, a
conference was convened at Harvard to mark the fiftieth anniversary of
the publication of Albert Lord’s seminal book, The Singer of Tales,
and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of Lord’s mentor, Milman
Parry. Twenty-nine speakers from around the world presented papers
intended to illustrate the wide-ranging impact of the work of Parry and
Lord. A collection of these papers will soon appear as a printed volume
published by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. To facilitate the dissemination of these studies, we present here preliminary versions of a number of the contributions.
Issue 13
Issue 13: Greek Poetry and Sport,
2015 (ed. Thomas Scanlon). Many studies on Pindar, Homer, and other
poets have discussed the specific uses of sport in each context, and
studies on Greek sport have acknowledged the ways in which agonistic
values and practices have been reflected in poetic literature, but there
has been no single collection of studies devoted specifically to the
intersection of Greek poetry and sport. This volume includes a range of
contributions that represent a diversity of genres, periods, and
approaches, which cut across strict poetic genres, occasionally even
mixing poetry and prose in their approach. Poetry's interest in sport
survived the rise and fall of genres like epinikia and satyr
plays, and the rise and fall of myriad political and cultural changes in
the Greek Mediterranean. We can only speculate on the many and complex
reasons for the grip of poetry on sport and vice-versa, but they no
doubt include Homeric intertextuality, the universal appeal of the topic
to the elite and the dêmos, the universal presence of gymnasia
and agonistic festivals (both blending poetry and sport), and the
agonistic resonances between poetry and sport.
Issue 12
Issue 12: Comparative Approaches to India and Greece,
2015 (ed. Douglas Frame). This issue contains papers by four scholars
comparing specific literary and cultural traditions in India and Greece.
The papers served as the basis of discussion at an event in February
2015 organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in association with
the Embassy of India. The discussion that took place among the scholars
and guests on that occasion, which began with summaries of the four
papers, is included as it was recorded. This is intended to be a
starting point for further discussion of the topics presented and of
other topics suggested by the nature and spirit of the event.
Issue 11
Issue 11: The Rhetoric of Abuse in Greek Literature,
2013 (ed. Håkan Tell). This volume grew out of the need for a venue in
which to engage collaboratively on the topic of abuse. Abuse has of
course been widely studied, and in the last few years there has been a
renewed interest in abuse as a broader cultural and literary phenomenon,
but there are reasonable restrictions as to how it has been addressed.
One goal of this volume is to initiate a scholarly discussion that will
allow greater heterogeneity in the material covered and in the
theoretical models brought to bear on that material. Another is to
encourage experimentation and collaborative exchange among scholars
working in seemingly unconnected fields. Most importantly, perhaps, we
would like to foster a deeper understanding of the role of abuse in all
of Greek literature, across genres and time periods, through the kind of
cumulative knowledge that comes from collaborative work in different
fields.
Issue 10
Issue 10: Historical Poetics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Greece: Essays in Honor of Lily Macrakis,
2012 (ed. Stamatia Dova). History needs art to give it form; art needs
history to give it resonance. This relationship of history and art is
the theme of the essays by distinguished international scholars
collected in this volume. Its publication celebrates the career and work
of Professor Lily Macrakis. She is an eminent chronicler of modern
Greek history whose seminal work, Venizelos: A Study in Cretan Leadership,
remains essential to an understanding of the most influential Greek
leader of the 20th century. Among her other accomplishments, Professor
Macrakis was president of The Modern Greek Studies Association from 1977
to 1979 and has been an influential figure in the organization since
its inception. Equally significant has been her role as a devoted
teacher of Greek history and culture to multitudes of students.
Professor Macrakis thus truly embodies the spirit and significance of
the articles presented in this Festschrift so fittingly dedicated to
her.
Issue 9
Issue 9: Defense Mechanisms in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Classical Studies and Beyond,
2011 (ed. Carol Gilligan, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy). Nowadays
people speak of “defense mechanisms” as both negative and positive
forms of behavior: examples of negative forms are denial, repression,
acting out, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, while one
of the few positive forms is assertion, a way of responding that takes
the middle ground between aggressive and passive. In the spirit of this
positive form of assertion and in both technical and non-technical
senses of the expression “defense mechanisms,” the present issue of
Classics@ has been given its title. The aim is to publish online
research papers and essays in Classics and in other disciplines, related
or unrelated, that explore strategies where the primary purpose is to
defend assertively rather than attack. The justification is
straightforward: discoveries and discovery procedures in research
require and deserve a reasoned defense.
Issue 8
Issue 8: A Homer commentary in progress,
2011 (ed. Douglas Frame, Leonard Muellner, and Gregory Nagy). This
commentary applies a special methodology of linguistics that stems
primarily from the research of Antoine Meillet and his teacher,
Ferdinand de Saussure, to the formulaic system of Homeric poetry based
squarely on the cumulative research of Milman Parry and his student,
Albert Lord. The methodology of this research, as inherited by Parry,
combines a rigorous study of Indo-European linguistics with two
complementary perspectives on language as a system—perspectives that
Saussure described as synchronic and diachronic. Our
linguistic approach in analyzing both synchronically and diachronically
the formulaic system of Homeric poetry provides an empirical foundation
for the discoveries and discovery procedures that we assemble and
organize in our Homer commentary.
Issue 7
Issue 7: Les femmes, le féminin et le politique après Nicole Loraux, Colloque de Paris (INHA), novembre 2007,
2011 (ed. Nathalie Ernoult and Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet) is the
result of a conference held in Paris (INHA, 15–17 November 2007) which
was co-organized by the Centre Louis Gernet (CNRS-EHESS), the Équipe
Phéacie (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Université
Denis-Diderot Paris VII) and the Réseau National Interuniversitaire sur
le Genre (RING, Paris). The aim of the conference was to explore Nicole
Loraux’s legacy concerning the feminine and the polis both in Hellenic Studies and in feminist scholarship.
Issue 6
Issue 6: Reflecting on the Greek Epic Cycle,
2010 (ed. Efimia D. Karakantza) is the result of a conference held in
Ancient Olympia on 9–10 July 2010, which was co-organized by the Center
for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University) and the Centre for the Study
of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity (University of
Patras). The goal of the conference was to explore problems concerning
the surviving fragments of the Greek Epic Cycle that have heretofore
been neglected. Guest Editor: Efimia D. Karakantza.
Issue 5
Issue 5: Proceedings of the Derveni Papyrus Conference,
2009 (ed. Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner) reflects a
three-day symposium on the Derveni Papyrus hosted by the Center for
Hellenic Studies in July, 2008, on the occasion of the recent
publication of the edition by Theokritos Kouremenos, George M.
Parássoglou, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou (Florence, Olschki, 2006; the
text of the papyrus from that edition is available on this website here).
The symposium was an opportunity to gather scholars who in the course
of the past decades have been working on this text to address a set of
issues relating to the edition and integration of the papyrus, its
translation, and its interpretation.
Issue 4
Issue 4: The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues,
2007 (ed. Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner) is the online edition of a
print volume published by the Center for Hellenic Studies in 2009
(available through Harvard University Press, here).
This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to
discussion of the newly-recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete
texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading
scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological issues
connected with the find. Using different approaches, the contributions
demonstrate how the "New Sappho" can be appreciated as a gracefully
spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and
aging.
Issue 3
Issue 3: The Homerizon: Conceptual Interrogations in Homeric Studies,
2005 (ed. Richard Armstrong and Casey Dué) is the result of a
colloquium held at the Center. The colloquium had as its goals the
serious interrogation of cherished assumptions about Homeric “culture”
and “texuality”; and the exploration of the wider cultural significance
of the perennial Homeric Question(s).
Issue 2
Issue 2: Ancient Mediterranean Cultural Informatics,
2004 (ed. Christopher Blackwell and Ross Scaife). The second issue of
Classics@ is the first edition of an ongoing project of publication
aimed at documenting this emerging sub-discipline of our field, the
scholarship of creating, analyzing, and disseminating humanist learning
electronically. This issue features articles describing these projects
and others like them — new work of high quality that is expanding the
depth and breadth of our field. It also looks back at the history of
this sub-discipline, and forward toward emerging standards, tools, and
potentials.
Issue 1
Issue 1: New Epigrams Attributed to Posidippus of Pella,
2003 (ed. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Martine
Cuypers, and Francesca Angiò). The focus of this first issue of Classics@ is the new Posidippus papyrus of some 112 epigrams, first published in 2001 as Posidippo di Pella: Epigrammi
(P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), Papiri dell' Univeristà degli Studi di Milano
- VIII, by LED - Edizioni Univeritarie di Lettere Economia Diritto (ed.
Guido Bastianini and Claudio Gallazzi, with Colin Austin). The guest
editors have constructed an in-progress working document of the
Posidippus text based ultimately on this editio princeps. From the
cumulative evidence of ongoing restorations, it becomes ever more
evident that the real challenge in this case is not to distinguish
between better and worse poetry, corresponding to the real and the
would-be Posidippus, but between better and worse restorations. The
better the restorations, the more one can see the consistency of quality
in the poetry. Without the ongoing re-examination of the text by way of
electronic documentation, the scholarly verdict on the value of the
Posidippus papyrus may harden too early into set views that inhibit the
kind of rethinking needed as important new evidence and interpretations
continue to be brought to light.
Proposals Welcome
The CHS welcomes proposals for future Issues of Classics@. proposals
should be sent by e-mail to the CHS Executive Editors Casey Dué
(casey@chs.harvard.edu) and Mary Ebbott (ebbott@chs.harvard.edu). Please
see the CHS Publications page for guidelines and details.
Firstdrafts@Classics@
Firstdrafts@Classics@
is intended to give early exposure to creative scholarship before its
formal publication. Please check regularly for new contributions and
updates on ways to provide feedback to authors.
The First Drafts are listed in order of publication, with the most recent first.
- Maria Chriti, "Aristotle as a Name-giver: The Cognitive Aspect of his Theory and Practice," January 25, 2018.
- Vassilis Liotsakis, "Narrative Suspense in Arrian’s Indikē: The Exotic Episodes in the Digression of ch. 29.9-31.9," January 25, 2018.
- Androniki Oikonomaki, "Ἀχαιοί, Ἀργεῖοι, Δαναοί: Revisiting the system of denomination of the Greeks in the Homeric epics," January 25, 2018.
- Antonios Thodis, "On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae," December 6, 2017.
- Aldo Paolo Bottino, "Space, Time and Remembering in the Orchard of Laertes: A Cognitive Approach," October 25, 2017.
- David A. Beardsley, "The Journey Back To Where You Are: Homer’s Odyssey as Spiritual Quest," April 17, 2017.
- Marco Fantuzzi, "How to Divinize a Mortal and (Try) Not to Offend the Gods: Pseudo-Euripides, Rhesus 342–387," December 26, 2016.
- Balim Barutcu, "On Poetry: A Capsule of Consciousness, Reality and History," November 20, 2016.
- Nina Beguš, "A Tale from the Silk Road: A Philological Account of The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden," August 11, 2016.
- Jackie Modesett, "The Transformation and Transmission of the Immediate," August 8, 2016.
- Cecily Cai, "The Fall of a Family: Tracing the Aristotelian Model of Catastrophe in Dream of the Red Chamber and Buddenbrooks," July 25, 2016.
- Ilana Freedman, "Re-Narrativizing the Visual: Poetic Ekphrasis in Modernist Distortion of Myth," May 11, 2016.
- Aldo Paolo Bottino, "The Adverb ΑΝΔΡΑΚΑΣ and the Composition of the Odyssey," March 16, 2016.
- Aldo Paolo Bottino, "The Phȃros of Laertes: Weaving the Fabric of Epic," October 7, 2015.
- Vincent T. Ciaramella, "Message
of Fire: An examination of the distances between the signal fires lit
to announce the fall of Troy and determining if the relay system could
work as found in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus," June 15, 2015.
- Vincent T. Ciaramella, "The Persistent Myth of the Existence of Homer in Mainstream History," May 7, 2015.
- Aldo Paolo Bottino, "The Trees of Laertes: an Epic Environment of Nóstos," October 28, 2014.
- Tyler Flatt, "Grief and Counterfactual Parallels in Homeric Narrative," August 30, 2011.
- A. S. W. Forte, "Speech from Tree and Rock: Recovery of a Bronze Age Metaphor," August 22, 2011.
- Amy Koenig, "Homeric Accentuation: A Comparative Study of the Bankes Papyrus and Other Roman Papyri," August 18, 2011.
- Emily Schurr, "Recreating the Creation: Reading between the Lines in the Proem of the Iliad," July 25, 2011.
- Christos Strubakos, "Iliadic Lion Similies: Rethinking Heroic Greatness," July 25, 2011.
- Alexis Pinchard, "Du hieros logos à la raison: vertus d'un détour par l'Inde," third edition, March 28, 2011 (second edition published October 27, 2009; first edition April 14, 2009).
- Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi, "Time and Space in Euripides’ Choral Odes.?The Technique of Choral Projections," September 9, 2010.
- Egidia Occhipinti, "Aristotele, Teopompo e la politica macedone," June 17, 2010.
- Steven M. Berry, "Vico's Homer and the "Oral Versus Written" Dilemma," May 11, 2010.
- Sean Signore, "Andromache as Maenadic Warrior," April 5, 2010.
- Claire Jacqmin, "Woman between the Tyrant and the Polis: the Role of Women in Tyrannical Regimes," April 5, 2010.
- Sarah Lannom, "Isthmian 8: Binding, Exchange, and Politics," March 22, 2010.
- Sergios Paschalis, "The Dioscuri in Pindar’s Nemean 10, Theocritus’ Idyll 22 and Ovid’s Fasti 5.693-720: Cattle, Brides, and Strife," February 18, 2010.
- Guy Smoot, "A Commentary on Pindar’s Olympian Ode II," February 17, 2010.
- Dan Bertoni, "Τύχη in Pindar," February 4, 2010.
- Emrys Bell-Schlatter, "Pythian 1: A Brief Commentary," January 27, 2010.
- Daniele Iozzia, "Ragioni e fortuna della metafora dello scolpire?in Plotino, Enn. I 6 (1) 9, 6-15," January 6, 2010.
- Alexander Loney, "Victims of the Gods’ Vengeance," excerpted from Homeric Tisis: Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the Odyssey (Ph. D. Dissertation, Duke University), September 28, 2009.
- Pascale Brillet-Dubois, "Astyanax and the Athenian War Orphans. Challenging war Ideology in Euripides' Trojan Women," August 12, 2009.
- Stephen Quinlan, "Running from Olympia to the Isles of the Blessed. Sacrifice, Athleticism and Cosmology in a Panhellenic Cult," August 12, 2009.
- David Mirhady, "Odyssey 18.130-42: The Poem's Programmic Passage?" April 3, 2009.
- Guy Smoot. "The Mitoses of Achilles." February 1, 2008.
- The initial publication of images of three Homeric Manuscripts from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is now online. Introduction by Christopher Blackwell, Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott, and Neel Smith. October 26, 2007.
- Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott, "Oral Poetics and the Homeric Doloneia," July 11, 2007.
- Yannick Durbec, "Callimaque Aitia Fr. 26 (Pfeiffer) et la tradition rhapsodique," August 28, 2006.
- Benjamin Woodring, "Trajectories of Things: Spears, Arrows, and Agency in Ancient Greek Epic Poetry," August 28, 2006.
- Sarah Shelton Hitch, King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Authority in the Iliad, Chapter 4, June 22, 2006.
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