The Etymologika project

SunoikisisDC Digital Classics and Byzantine Studies: Session 8

Date: Monday June 3, 2024. 16:00-17:30 BST = 17:00-18:30 CEST.

Convenors: Daniel Deckers, Kajetan Dvoracek, Stefano Valente (Universität Hamburg)

Youtube link: youtu.be/28Dhhad4gmc

Slides: Combined slides (PDF)

Outline

This session discusses the critical edition of Greek and Byzantine lexicographical texts on the example of the Etymologicum Gudianum, with a particular focus on the creation of a multi-faceted, responsive web application combining the edition proper with numerous additional resources including manuscript images. We will provide an introductory overview of the edition of lexicographical texts, in particular etymologika, and of the edition the Etymologicum Gudianum in particular, including existing research, manuscript transmission, and the scope and plans of this long-term project of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, carried out at Universität Hamburg. The main focus of the session will then be the digital edition and its planned features, including cursory discussion of some of the technical details both pertaining to data modelling and to the implementation.

Required readings

• S. Valente, Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum, in: Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts, edited by Jörg B. Quenzer, Berlin/Boston 2021, pp. 583-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753301-029.

Further readings

• E. Dickey, Ancient Greek Scholarship: a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• R. Reitzenstein, Etymologika, in RE VI/1 (1907) 807-817. Available: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Etymologika.

Resources

• Preview of the Etymologika digital edition web application (user name "sunoikisis2024", password "synoikisis20240603").
• The TEI-Guidelines Chapter 11 Representation of Primary sources.
• The TEI-Guidelines Chapter 12 Critical Apparatus.
• The TEI-Guidelines Chapter 16 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment.

Exercise

Option 1

• Look at how the materials presented in the different tiles in the preview (cf. Resources 1) are interconnected, and read the chapter on linking and alignment of the TEI guidelines. Discuss what amount of cross-references (linking) are needed and what granularity is required to make this possible.

Option 2

(The following exercises require at least some base knowledge of Ancient Greek.)

• Try to find entries corresponding to those shown in the preview (cf. Resources 1) in Suda online, noting the differences.

Option 3

• Try to locate any three of the entries shown in the preview (cf. Resources 1) in the manuscript Par. gr. suppl. gr. 172, p. 201.

Option 4

• (very challenging!) Try to locate the same entries in the original manuscript Vat. Barb. gr. 70, f. 74v/75r.