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It’s been a slow couple of days for news, so I’m starting to find things in my mailbox again … I don’t think I mentioned the Lexicity site, which was making the rounds of various media a few weeks ago. It gathers together a pile of language resources (including Greek and Latin … Sanskrit too) which will likely be of great use to folks who frequent rogueclassicism … it looks interesting, even if it has a somewhat hubristic tagline …
Not sure if we’ve mentioned the Alpheios project before, but they’ve sent me this little missive, which should be of interest:
The Alpheios Project should like to announce the availability of sentence diagrams for selections from book one of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the entire Iliad and Odyssey, five of the plays of Aeschylus, the Theogony and Shield of Heracles of Hesiod and the Ajax of Sophocles. We hope to be able to provide several more plays of Sophocles and examples of diagrammed prose in both Latin and Greek in the near future, beginning with Plato’s Euthyphro.
The diagrams have been fully integrated into the Alpheios tools and are available from an icon in the browser window. As always, the tools remain free and open source.
Sentence diagrams are an invaluable tool for close study of a text as well as learning its language, and when collected into “treebanks” have become a basic resource for contemporary corpus linguistics.
Creating sentence diagrams has proven to be pedagogically effective and popular with many students, and anyone interested in contributing their work to the ongoing project is encouraged to visit:
http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/getinvolved.html
Our vetus amicus Michael Hendry has put up a useful tool for those folks struggling to convert between various ancient number systems (we’ll make sure all those journalists get this at SuperBowl time) … should be useful in the Latin and Greek classroom too:
My spiders just brought back a great sarcophagus image, which came from an internet source that is new to me and looks potentially useful:
Here’s the image, by the way:
… each image has a brief description, of course …
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