The digital study of the ancient Greek and Roman era is characterized by a specific context. Antiquity offers fewer sources and perhaps less text material than later times, but these sources have—to a large extent—already been digitized. Since the 1980s a huge amount of Greek and Latin text collections are… Read more
There is a humorous scene in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada in which the fashion magazine executive Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) verbally eviscerates her new administrative assistant, a recent college graduate in journalism named Andy (Anne Hathaway). [1] What prompts this takedown is… Read more
1. Introduction The recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) seem to have become a defining feature of the methodological framework of the Digital Humanities, despite recurrent concerns that the system they define is at the same time both too rigorous for the manifold variability of humanistic text, and not… Read more
1. Introduction The Greek documentary papyri and ostraca from Egypt present a wealth of information for large-scale variational-linguistic research: they form a considerable corpus—about 4.5 million Greek words—spanning several centuries from the third century BCE to the eighth century CE; they contain various text genres, including texts in a more… Read more
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Collatinus and Eulexis are free open-source programs, designed to lemmatize Latin or Greek texts and to give a short translation of the parsed… Read more
0. Introduction The language and style of Pliny the Elder have been studied since the 19th century with a strong comparative approach. Grasberger, [1] Müller, [2] and Gaillard [3] have analyzed and recorded which features… Read more
University of Liège, UR Mondes Anciens, LASLA Over the past thirty years, numerous works [1] have aimed to renew the field of lexical semantics using the method of semic analysis. [2] These publications have led to undeniable advances in the… Read more
1. Introduction 1.1 Computers, Literature, and Language “It is a truth not generally acknowledged that, in most discussions of works of English fiction, we proceed as if a third, two-fifths, a half of our material were not really there.” [1] With these words, John Burrows… Read more
1. Introduction As a distinct and easily identifiable linguistic feature, the genitive absolute construction in Ancient Greek is an excellent example to illustrate how morphosyntactically annotated corpora can be examined for linguistic phenomena and what challenges arise in dealing with heterogeneous data such as papyrological material. [1]… Read more
College of the Holy Cross Overview The Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad (Marciana 454 = 822) is uniquely important for Homerists. [1] The scholarly notes (or scholia) that often fill the margins of the manuscript’s pages cite scholars as early as the first Alexandrian… Read more
