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I wonder what the problem is with Greek text via browsers in this day and age. No, I think this is, to quote the 2008 trope, *excellent news* for classicists, a stripped down, pricy version of what is available elsewhere. To add something positive to the discussion, I would point to the DH awards nominations, which include two wonderful Italian sites, DigiLibLT which aims to supplement the Latin PHI texts for later periods, and musisque deoque which offers many fantastic features, including searching the app crit. All best, Helma A quick list of what this announcement is not covering: Reading Greek and Latin with commentaries and translations, not to mention dictionaries and grammars: Perseus (for decades now) Greek on your iPad: Attikos Dictionaries on your iPad: Logeion Searching for words, lemma, morphology and combinations thereof; distribution over the corpus of same, cross-corpus text alignment: Perseus under PhiloLogic. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Anna Foka <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Gabriel: Answer out of utter ignorance perhaps (even more) more ubiquity, > tangibility (is that even a word?) in the classroom/ for students, less > problems with Greek text via browsers, no need for internet access perhaps? > (I am ashamed to admit I have a Mac at work- sometimes my word crashes). > > Dr. Anna Foka, Umeå University. > > > On 6 feb 2014, at 17:10, "Gabriel Bodard" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > What would this "competing app" do that Perseus / Alpheios etc. don't > > already do? > > > > (Genuine question, btw: I'm hoping we can brainstorm our wishlist for an > > open Latin app.) > > > >> On 2014-02-06 15:27, Rogueclassicist wrote: > >> Thinking out loud. .... Given the open access availability of Perseus, > couldn't a sort of competing app be developed? > >> > >> Sent from my iPad > >> > >>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:20 AM, "Charles E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> (With all due respect) In your dreams! > >>> > >>> Details on how libraries are going to license this stuff are thin at > the moment - possibly through De Gruyter? > >>> > >>> Edwin Donnelly and others have worked to make the open (i.e. old) > Loebs accessible: > >>> http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/loebolus-loebs.html > >>> > >>> -Chuck- > >>> > >>> > >>> ________________________________________ > >>> From: The Digital Classicist List [[log in to unmask]] > on behalf of Gabriel Bodard [[log in to unmask]] > >>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 10:00 AM > >>> To: [log in to unmask] > >>> Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Fwd: INFO: Loeb Online > >>> > >>> Anyone know anything about this Loeb announcement? Will the texts be > >>> open access, or even better, open licensed? > >>> > >>> > >>> -------- Original Message -------- > >>> Subject: INFO: Loeb Online > >>> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:34:39 +0000 > >>> From: Clark, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> > >>> To: <[log in to unmask]> > >>> > >>> > >>> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/loeb/digital.html > >>> > >>> > >>> Forthcoming in Fall 2014: The Digital Loeb Classical Library® > >>> > >>> "The Loeb Classical Library® <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb>, > founded > >>> by James Loeb in 1911, has from the very beginning fostered its stated > >>> mission to make classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the > >>> broadest range of readers. The *digital Loeb Classical library* extends > >>> this mission for readers of the twenty-first century. Harvard > University > >>> Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility and with > >>> the introduction of the digital Loeb Classical Library presents an > >>> interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library > >>> of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric > >>> poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, philosophy, and oratory; the great > >>> medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made > >>> particular use of the Classics—in short, our entire Greek and Latin > >>> Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and > >>> accurate and literate English translations. 523 volumes of fully > >>> searchable Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern > and > >>> elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, > >>> annotate, and share content with ease." > > > > -- > > Dr Gabriel BODARD > > Researcher in Digital Epigraphy > > > > Digital Humanities > > King's College London > > Boris Karloff Building > > 26-29 Drury Lane > > London WC2B 5RL > > > > T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 > > E: [log in to unmask] > > > > http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ > > http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ > -- Helma Dik Department of Classics University of Chicago