A group for the philology (including epigraphy, papyrology, and text criticism) and linguistics of Ancient Greek, Latin, and related languages.
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Elodie Paillard deposited 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoElodie Paillard, ‘Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances’, in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022
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Elodie Paillard deposited The Stage and the City in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Wikipedia in Classics Education in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis article is a report of a roundtable discussion organised by the authors at the UK Classical Association conference, Cambridge, April 2023, under the aegis of #WCCWiki, the Women’s Classical Committee’s Wikipedia-editing project. It presents a summary of the participants’ wide-ranging uses of Wikipedia editing at schools, universities, and…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Future challenges for computational diversity linguistics in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThis is the first of a series of 12 blog posts published in 2019, discussing open problems in computational diversity linguistics. It presents a list of 10 problems on computational diversity linguistics.
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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 76.3, 2023/WS 135, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 148–151 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 months agoMore detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).
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Henning Ohst deposited Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity. Form, Tradition, and Context, ed. Berenice Verhelst/Tine Scheijnen (2022), Plekos 25, 2023, 327–339 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThe volume under review is based on the premise that there is no real dialogue between Greek and Latin studies on the literature (and especially on the poetry) of Late Antiquity, at least not a dialogue as intense as with regard to the earlier, ‘classical’ literature. The reason for this is not least the problem that mutual dependencies between…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon – 4th Edition 2023 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThe Akkadian of this lexicon was spoken by Neolithic farmers who migrated to Europe from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This lexicon combined with the new genetic migration information demonstrates that Europe had its own ancient Pagan civilization just as important and innovative as any other ancient civilization. This lexicon begins…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 75.6, 2022/Hermes 150.4, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 62–68 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoMore detailed Discussions on J. van Waarden: Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius. Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire, Mnemosyne 75/6, 2022, 1021–1043 (62–64) and G. Wöhrle: Fragmente im
Überfluss. Zur Problematik eines philologischen Begriffs, Hermes 150/4, 2022, 385-404 (64–67). -
Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. Andrew Fear/Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, 65–77 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThe Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which – as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors – are thematically divided into three sections (“parts”): “Isidore’s Contexts” (chapters 1-4, including the “Introduction”), “Themes in Isidore’s Works” (chapters 5-13), and “Transmission andReception…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited ‚Irasci me tibi scito‘. Augustus und sein Verhältnis zu Horaz im Spiegel der Fragmente seiner Privatkorrespondenz, ‚Augustus immortalis‘. (…), ed. Jessica Bartz/Martin Müller/Rolf Frank Sporleder (Berlin 2020), 81–88 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoWhile the Res Gestae are understood as an important source for the life and work of Augustus, Henning Ohst presents letters of the Princeps. These have survived only in fragments and through other authors, but still offer research opportunities for new questions. The focus of the contribution is the relationship of the Princeps to poets such as…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Glotta 98, 2022/MH 79.1, 2022), Forum Classicum 65, 2022, 362–365 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoMore detailed discussions on: Y. Brandenburg: Amare mit Infinitv. Bedeutungsentlehnung und Sprachgebrauch bei Sallust und Horaz, Glotta 98, 2022, 68–77 (362f.); A. J. Woodman: Horace’s Second Ode, MH 79, 2022, 55–76 (363f.)
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Amedeo Raschieri deposited Rhetorical Education from Greece to Rome: the Case of Cicero’s De inventione in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe case of Cicero’s de inventione is interesting for many reasons. First, the work is an early example of the construction of cultural memory in the field of Roman rhetoric. Second, this work shows a strong connection between rhetorical theory, the Ciceronian interest in other disciplines (especially philosophy) and the oratorical formation of a…[Read more]
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Amedeo Raschieri deposited Esempi animali e pietas filiale nella Dictio 17 di Ennodio in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe Dictio 17 (= 239 Vogel) of Ennodius is a controuersia in which the declamator speaks against a son who did not provide for the care of his aged father and thus procured his death. The argument is reinforced by examples of animals – eagles and wolves – who, unlike the defendant, take care of their parents. In the example of the eagles, Enn…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Lecture, presented at the University of Passau in the Winter Term 2022-2023) in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoWhile the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 9 months agoSince H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more] -
Ermanno Malaspina deposited For a Pre-history and Post-history of the Corpus Leidense With a List of the Manuscripts of De natura deorum in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe present article examines the Corpus Leidense, the group of eight Ciceronian treatises among which the De natura deorum was also transmitted, focusing on its archetype. The second and longer section contains the first complete list of the 174 identified manuscripts of De natura deorum, with 57 new items added to the 117 already listed by Pease…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Approaches to Rule-Based Phonological Reconstruction in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Historical Linguistics in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 11 months agoIn the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]
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Annika Tjuka deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. Volume 5 in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 11 months agoThe weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Formal and quantitative approaches to historical language comparison in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoLecture, given at the Fifth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (Università di Pavia, 2022-09-05/09)
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