Projects
A curated directory of hands-on, step-by-step guides, open templates, and practical workflows for learning Classics through artifact construction and methodological practice.
What I cannot create, I do not understand. — Richard Feynman
Edit a Critical Edition or Digital Text
- 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 / Classics@ / Center for Hellenic Studies)
- The Words on the Page: Thoughts on Philology, Old and New (M. J. Driscoll)
Translate an Ancient Greek or Latin Text
- Translating: Facts, Illusions, Alternatives (Dexter Hoyos / CAMWS)
- Writing a Translation Commentary (Penélope Johnson / Routledge) [Paid]
- A Straightforward Guide to Translating Latin Unseens (Darren Tan / YouTube)
- Translating Ancient Drama: An Introduction to Translation (Cécile Dudouyt / APGRD, University of Oxford)
Write a Classical Commentary
- 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)
Transcribe and Encode an Inscription or Papyrus
- EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML Guidelines (EpiDoc Collaborative)
- Online Syllabus and Video Tutorials for EpiDoc Training (GitHub / EpiDoc)
- Text Leiden+ Documentation: Guidelines for Encoding Ancient Papyri (Papyri.info)
- 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)
Write a Close Reading Analysis
- 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 an Ancient History Research Paper
- 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]
- Object and Art Analysis in Classics (ClassicsWrites / Harvard University)
Annotate a Syntactic Treebank
- 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 Historical Places and Spatial Networks
- 10 Minute Tutorial: Geotagging and Mapping Texts with Recogito (Pelagios Network)
- Recogito Documentation and Video Tutorials Wiki (Pelagios Network / GitHub)
- From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources (Marten Düring / The Programming Historian)
- Conceptual Overview of the Pleiades Spatial Data Model (Sean Gillies et al. / Pleiades)