Digitized Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) at Arachne
Posted: 16 Sep 2013 06:34 AM PDT
[First posted in AWOL 30 January 2012. Most recently updated 16 September 2013]
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions from all corners of the Roman Empire. Public and personal inscriptions throw light on all aspects of Roman life and history. The Corpus continues to be updated with new editions and supplements by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/index_en.html
http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/dateien/cil_baende.html
This digitized version of the CIL will initially comprise of the more than 50 parts (of vols. I-XVI + auctaria and of v. I (edition altera)) published before 1940. Available funding covers the digitization of the volumes with an imperfect OCR searching capability. The goal is to eventually create a keyword searchable database to contain also future volumes of the CIL as they fall outside of copyright restrictions and to eventually do the same for the Inscriptiones Graecae.
The printed version of the CIL presently consists of 17 volumes in approximately 70 parts, recording some 180,000 inscriptions. Thirteen supplementary volumes have plates and specialized indices. The first volume, in two sections, covered the oldest inscriptions, to the end of the Roman Republic; volumes II to XIV are divided geographically, according to the regions where the inscriptions were found and within these divisions also by inscription type. A two-volume "Index of Numbers," correlating inscription numbers with volume numbers, was published in 2003.
Background
In 2009 the Heads of the libraries of the American Academy in Rome, Rebecka Lindau, and École Française de Rome, Yannick Nexon, met to discuss the possibility of digitizing the volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum currently out of copyright. This had been a desire of both for a long time. Soon the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the Head of its library, Thomas Fröhlich, joined the project. Providing a server to host the volumes was more of a challenge. The DAI and Reinhard Foertsch at the University of Cologne came to the rescue with their object database Arachne, which is dynamically connected to international aggregators such as Claros.net or the multinational European project CARARE, and freely available on the Web http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/.
The following volumes will soon be online through Arachne:
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vol. I Inscriptiones Latinae antiquissimae ad C. Caesaris mortem.1863
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Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:44 AM PDT
This is a list of the Antiquity focused open access student journals I know about. I am sure there are more, please comment and let me know what I have missed.
AGORA: The Undergraduate Journal of UBC Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
AnthroJournal: The Collegiate Journal of Anthropology
Brown Classical Journal
Constellations
Digressus : The Internet Journal for the Classical World
Hey!Zeus! The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Classics
Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
Mythological Studies Journal
Orient: A Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Student Union Publication (formerly Journal of Near & Middle Eastern Studies)
Past Imperfect
The Post Hole
Plêthos: Revista Discente de Estudos Sobre a Antiguidadee o Medievo
Studies in Mediterranean antiquity and classics
TOTEM: The University of Western Ontario Anthropology Journal
Vexillum: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies
vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology
Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae Source
Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae Source presents the transcription of the collection of testimonies about Socrates and Socratics (Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae) originally edited by G. Giannantoni.
The main goal of our project is clear and simple: we have converted into digital form all the witnesses regarding Socrates and the so-called Minor Socratics. Our basis of reference for the production of such a virtual book is the sole, complete collection available nowadays, namely that edited by Gabriele Giannantoni (1990)2. It is perhaps useful to reflect on the actual and inspiring scope of our enterprise. We want to repropose - and 'disseminate' in a capillary way, so we hope - the rich tradition about Socrates (as well as information and witnesses about some important, although not always rightly evaluated, philosophers linked to him). A reasonable question is in the air: why?
DOCUMENTATION
Presocratics Documentation
Socratics Documentation
Laertius Documentation
ARCHIVE
Laertius (10)
Presocratics (145)
Sextus (14)
Socratics (55)
Fondation pour le Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)
The wealth of ancient myths and legends which we call Classical Mythology is one of the major elements of our cultural heritage. The study of its iconographic representations is the main aim pursued by the Foundation for the LIMC, a foundation of international character, and constituted under Swiss law, that was formed in Geneva in 1972 and has been located in Basel since 1983. Its first task was the preparation and publication of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), (1981-1999 and Supplement 2009). This work has been continued by the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA) (Volumes I-V: 2004-2006; Volumes VI-VIII: 2011-2012; Index being prepared), focused on the domain of cult and rite.
To be able to reach the goals set by the Foundation, the enterprise has been provided with a suitable infrastructure right from its beginning. Its constituent bodies are as follows:
the Foundation Council, which is mainly in charge of providing and taking care of the necessary funds as well as the coordination of the executive bodies;
the International Scientific Committee, which comprises scholars from most of the countries that contribute to the projects of the Foundation by providing scientific material, photographs and texts;
the Editorial Board, which decides the content of the publications, selects the authors and supervises the intellectual content of their contributions;
the Central Editorial Office, which is located in Basel, and takes care of the documentation, acquires photographs, prepares the texts for printing and produces the volumes of plates. It is aided by connected editorial offices in Paris, Heidelberg/Würzburg and Athens.
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