Digital Classics

  • From a Stanford News release: Rap Genius is a popular lyric-annotating website that allows music lovers to upload lyrics and share comments about them. Stanford classics students are using it too, but for a decidedly academic purpose. Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, a classics graduate student, began using Rap Genius to comment on and annotate Greek texts. Shortly…

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  • A New Metrologist: Odysseus

    An interesting citation project discovers, inter alia, the work of a hitherto unknown metrologist. Froma CORDIS press release: A research conducted at the Department of Classical and Romanic Philology has led to the creation of a pioneering database of bibliographical citations on authors of Ancient Greece and Rome, whose works, in many cases, have not…

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  • Report on Digital Classics panel, Classical Association 2013 via The Stoa Consortium  

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  • What Should Gregory Crane Do? DCA Wrap-Up via Dickinson College Commentaries.

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  • Greek Texts to be Digitized

    From a UCL press release: A grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will create an online digital library containing rare books and art works related to Greek history and culture which will be available to everyone, across the world. For the first time, hundreds of key texts by the notable Greek mathematician, Euclid will be…

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