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A short text written for another occasion and rejected due to its length. After the fall of Constantinople during the fourth crusade in 1204,  the adjective “Roman” (that is, Byzantine) as an identity marker lost its precise meaning, since it could now refer also to the Roman (Catholic) Church that represented an enemy. The historical [...]

Skipping ahead, a similar point is made more effectively in Notis Toufexis’ chapter on the diachronic study of Greek. Toufexis argues very convincingly that text mark-up allows us to move beyond the idea of a single critical edition of an ancient Greek text and instead to preserve the entire rich history of ‘misspellings’ and ‘misreadings’ [...]

It’s old but its now free and sometimes useful. A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek E. A. Sophocles Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Series, Vol. 7 1860, pp. 1-624 via JSTOR: Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Series, Vol. 7 1860, pp. 1-624.

“Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists September 10th, 2011 by Simon Mahony A web only publication by Alison Babeu with good coverage of the Stoa and the Digital Classicist. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.   The author provides a summative and recent overview of the [...]

TLG Pop-up Originally uploaded by notiX. This window comes up when you search for a word or browse a text on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae website. I haven’t visited the site for a while, so I can’t really tell when this was introduced. I am just wondering if it is technically possible to disallow copying [...]

P. Mackridge uses in his latest book an impressive number of sources in Greek. All texts are quoted in his book in English translation. I have tried to collect, for my own research, as many sources as possible (provided they were available in the public domain). I am making them available here in the form [...]

I am using the TLG on a daily basis for my research. I ‘ve bookmarked the entry URL on my browser (Safari for Mac OS X) and normally have one or more tabs or windows simultaneously open. My issue with this: I tend to close down tabs or windows while browsing the web, following URL’s [...]

Spend a day without Internet connection after upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). My MacBook Pro would get an IP address from the router, browser and mail software couldn’t connect to the Internet, Skype could. The solution: added DNS servers in Network preferences (thanks to the Alice Tech Support).

http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ You can paste in text in Unicode, the tool will convert to several different codes that you might need for development. This is the above text in decimal code points: 89 111 117 32 99 97 110 32 112 97 115 116 101 32 105 110 32 116 101 120 116 32 105 110 [...]

Tag Galaxy. An alternative photo search engine. Extremely cool, astonishingly simple. via ReadWriteWeb