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The Homer Multitext: Good men are always exceedingly prone to tears

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Monday, June 29, 2015. Good men are always exceedingly prone to tears. In this morning's Homer Multitext seminar we began exploring the scholia that accompany Iliad. 19 in the Venetus A manuscript. In my previous post. 8521-531, in which Odysseus, weeping in response to the third song of Demodokos, is compared to just such a woman (see also here. As I have written about in my 2006 book. The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy. The comment refers explicitly to the simile of Odyssey. 19 is described wi...

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The Homer Multitext: September 2014

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Sunday, September 7, 2014. Summer Researchers Present Their Work At Holy Cross. Back to school season is here and while most students are concerned with the first week of classes, several Homer Multitext researchers joined their peers at Holy Cross's Annual Summer Research Symposium this Friday, September 5th. Our researchers stood alongside projects from the sciences and humanities, all of which were conducted at the College of the Holy Cross this summer. Hogan Ballroom was packed from 1-4pm.

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The Homer Multitext: Resolving a Century-Old Problem of a Scholion’s Lemma

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Friday, July 31, 2015. Resolving a Century-Old Problem of a Scholion’s Lemma. Athena wearing Zeus's aegis, one of the topics of this scholion. Among the many potentially befuddling characteristics of the Venetus A manuscript, one thing that is usually fairly straightforward is the connection made to the Iliad. Text by a scholion’s lemma, an excerpted word or phrase from the Iliad. Lines are being commented on based on their content. When a scholion’s lemma has no clear connection to the Iliad. Like other...

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The Homer Multitext: Dingbats and Doohickeys in the Venetus A

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Thursday, July 30, 2015. Dingbats and Doohickeys in the Venetus A. During our work on Iliad. Sometimes, when dealing with a very dense page, the scribe was forced to break his rules about the placement of scholia. For example, folio 248v, which covers Iliad. 18480–18.504, is highly packed with comments about the astrological bodies found on the shield of Achilles. Folio 248v of the Venetus A manuscript: view it in detail in the Homer Mulitext manuscript browser. Another argument for these seemingly exter...

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The Homer Multitext: Hektor’s Variation on a Lament by Briseis

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Hektor’s Variation on a Lament by Briseis. See especially Lord 1960), in an oral epic song tradition like that in which the Iliad. This week I happened to be reminded of the laments for Achilles in the epic of Quintus of Smyrna, whose Posthomerica. Which might be translated as “epic events after Homer”) narrates the death of Achilles and the sack of Troy. In that epic, Achilles’ prize of war Briseis gives the following lament (3.551-576):. Βρισηὶς παράκοιτις ἐυπτολέμου Ἀχιλῆος.

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The Homer Multitext: Linking poetry and scholia in medieval Homeric manuscripts

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Linking poetry and scholia in medieval Homeric manuscripts. In our rationale for a digital edition of the Homeric epics, we have observed (e.g., in “ Digital Criticism. 8221;) that the layout of a print edition of the Iliad. In a conference presentation. It is clear that each page is carefully set up to accommodate these multiple sets of texts (see also Maniaci 2006). How, then, should a page of the Venetus A be read? The page layout creates possibilities of and even the need f...

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The Homer Multitext: Achilles and the captive woman's lament in Iliad 19

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Friday, June 26, 2015. Achilles and the captive woman's lament in Iliad 19. This year at the Homer Multitext Summer Seminar the student-faculty teams are creating an edition of book 19 of the Iliad. In the Venetus A, as well exploring the poetics of this particular book. 8, in which Demodokos sings about Odysseus raging through the streets like Ares during the sack of Troy:. Ταῦτ’ ἄρ’ ἀοιδὸς ἄειδε περικλυτός· αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς. Τήκετο, δάκρυ δ’ ἔδευεν ὑπὸ βλεφάροισι παρειάς. The renowned singer sang these t...

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The Homer Multitext: July 2015

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Friday, July 31, 2015. Resolving a Century-Old Problem of a Scholion’s Lemma. Athena wearing Zeus's aegis, one of the topics of this scholion. Among the many potentially befuddling characteristics of the Venetus A manuscript, one thing that is usually fairly straightforward is the connection made to the Iliad. Text by a scholion’s lemma, an excerpted word or phrase from the Iliad. Lines are being commented on based on their content. When a scholion’s lemma has no clear connection to the Iliad. Like other...

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The Homer Multitext: May 2015

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Variations on Briseis: Special Homeric Poetics Edition. In June the Center for Hellenic Studies. Will once again host the Homer Multitext Summer Seminar. Each year the seminar introduces a new generation of student researchers to the principles that underly the Homer Multitext. Project via a particular book of the Iliad. They will also know a great deal about how the Iliad. Was composed and the poetics of a work that was composed in performance. The taking of Briseis by Agamemnon.