Projects
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman
- Produce your own critical editions
- Translate your own ancient texts
- Write your own classical commentaries
- Encode your own epigraphic inscriptions
- Transcribe your own documentary papyri
- Write your own close reading analyses
- Write your own ancient history research papers
- Analyze your own classical archaeological artifacts
- Annotate your own syntactic treebanks
- Map your own ancient geographical places
- Construct your own historical network visualizations
Produce your own critical editions
- Software for Producing a Critical Edition: Classical Text Editor, LaTeX, and TEI (Andrew Dunning)
- CTE Tutorial: Creating a Simple Critical Edition (Alex Poulos)
- Guidelines for Encoding Critical Editions for the Library of Digital Latin Texts (Digital Latin Library)
- Typesetting Scholarly Editions with reledmac (Maïeul Rouquette / CTAN)
- Digital Methods of Analysing and Reconstructing Ancient Greek and Latin Texts (Anna Novokhatko and Felix K. Maier / Center for Hellenic Studies)
Translate your own ancient texts
- Translating: Facts, Illusions, Alternatives (Dexter Hoyos / CAMWS)
- Latin: How to Read It Fluently: A Practical Manual (Dexter Hoyos / Bolchazy-Carducci) [Paid]
- Writing a Translation Commentary (Penélope Johnson / Routledge) [Paid]
- An Introduction to Translation (Cécile Dudouyt / APGRD, University of Oxford)
Write your own classical commentaries
- Classical Commentary DIY: Creating Graded Student Commentaries (Peter Sipes / Dickinson College Commentaries)
- Sections of a Commentary (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
- Writing a Literary Commentary: Guidelines (University of Warwick)
Encode your own epigraphic inscriptions
- EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML Guidelines (EpiDoc Collaborative)
- Online Syllabus and Video Tutorials for EpiDoc Training (GitHub / EpiDoc)
- Epigraphic Conventions Used in Transcriptions and Reconstructions (Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project)
- Greek and Latin Epigraphy: An Absolute Beginners' Guide (Onno van Nijf / Roger Pearse)
Transcribe your own documentary papyri
- Text Leiden+ Documentation: Guidelines for Encoding Ancient Papyri (Papyri.info)
- Best Practices: Leiden+ (ENCODE Guidelines)
Write your own close reading analyses
- Close Reading as Analysis (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
- How to Do a Close Reading (Patricia Kain / Harvard College Writing Center)
- Thesis Statements and Argument Development in Classics (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
Write your own ancient history research papers
- A Guide to Writing in History and Classics (Mark Damen / Utah State University)
- A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper (Harvard College Writing Center)
- Writing Ancient History (Neville Morley / Cornell University Press) [Paid]
Analyze your own classical archaeological artifacts
- Object and Art Analysis in Classics (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
- Tombstone Information and Archaeological Cataloging (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
Annotate your own syntactic treebanks
- Treebanking with Arethusa (Jeremy March / Digital Initiatives at the Graduate Center, CUNY)
- Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank Guidelines (Perseus Project / GitHub)
- Learning Greek and Latin with Treebanks (Vanessa Gorman and Matthew Harrington / SunoikisisDC)
Map your own ancient geographical places
- 10 Minute Tutorial: Geotagging and Mapping Texts with Recogito (Pelagios Network)
- Recogito Documentation and Video Tutorials Wiki (Pelagios Network / GitHub)
- Conceptual Overview of the Pleiades Spatial Data Model (Sean Gillies et al. / Pleiades)