We were excited to welcome Chiara Palladino for an Open House entitled “Discovering Ancient Documents with Digital Mapping Tools.” The event took place on Friday, April 22 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. This event has a hands-on component. Instructions are beneath the video. You can watch the video below or on our YouTube channel. To follow along with this hands-on component, create an account at Recogito and watch… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Luke Hollis for an Open House discussion about digital classical imagination. The event took place on Thursday, February 28 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You might like to consider the following before the event: Find a classical text or artifact in a digital archive online (one such archive, among many others, is the Acropolis Museum at Google Arts and Culture). How does the digital… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Thomas Köntges of University of Leipzig for an Open House discussion titled, Re-Re-Counting Plato: This Time with More Data. It took place on Thursday, March 8, at 11:00 a.m. EST, and was recorded. In preparation, you might like to read these short passages with the following questions in mind: How does Aristotle usually quote Plato? When Aristotle mentions Socrates, does he refer to Plato’s Socrates?… Read more
The Homer Multitext annual summer seminar is set to begin July 5th at CHS! As we close in on finishing our complete edition of the text and scholia of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad, we will turn our attention to Iliad 20, a book that seems preoccupied with the mythological and poetic tradition, and things happening at the wrong time. Read about Iliad 20 in the latest post… Read more
We are pleased to share our video discussion with Elton Barker (Open University). Barker is a principal investigator on three innovative digital projects that help to visualize the ancient world in new ways. The Hestia Project: Google Ancient Place (GAP): Pelagios (Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems), Elton Barker: Biography Elton Barker is a reader in Classical Studies at the Open University. Elton’s research interests include: the agon… Read more