But what period? When do we stop? In some ways that’s easier for Latin than for Greek: so LLT-B for Latin: but Greek is still alive and kicking . . .

C

On 12 Nov 2015, at 14:29, stelios chronopoulos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Gabriel,

I would like to express my opinion about #2 and #3.
#2: I don't see any reason to restrict the page only to Greek and Latin.
#3: the distinction between "lit." , "inscr. + pap.", "other" is not very helpful. But perhaps inserting a new distinction on the base of the scholarly genre (edition, ed. with comm. etc) could be interesting. Especially because new genres emerge in the digital media.

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stelios

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Am 12.11.2015 um 15:15 schrieb harry diakoff:

Yes, to restrict it to Greek and Latin would certainly be atavistically myopic- imho 

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Usama A. Gad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Gabriel,

I'll express my thoughts only about question number 2.

I don't think that  we should restrict ourselves to Greek and Latin. This restriction was imposed upon us by the limitations of the printed book, not by the very nature of the languages we are concerned with i.e. Greek and Latin, nor by the very nature of the world we are concerned with i.e. the Greco-Roman world. Greek e.g. was not in any way in isolation from the languages spoken, written etc. around it. In Egypt we find it written alongside other scripts of the Egyptian languages. After the Arabs took control of the land, we find it written with Arabic in the same document(s). The examples and cases within Egypt and outside it in this world, are numerous and we have been lately our of this simple facts, which the printed medium didn't allow us to grasp, thanks to the new medium i.e. the digital. I think that the so called Greco-Roman world was more multilingual than we presumably assumed. Yes the Greeks ruled it, then the Romans, but they weren't the only inhabitants of this world. Greek and Latin were not  THE languages of this world, but only TWO of many languages spoken and written in this world.

To sum up, no, I personally don't think that we should be restricting ourselves to Greek and Latin.

Best regards,

Usama

On Nov 12, 2015 12:28 PM, "Gabriel BODARD" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I've recently cast my eye over this page in the Digital Classicist wiki <https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Greek_and_Latin_texts_in_digital_form> and it occurs to me that you may have some items to add to (or indeed delete from) this list of sources of online texts.

In particular:

1) Should projects such as the Digital Latin Library, Literary Papyri, IDEs, EAGLE, LOFTS, AIO, etc. have mentions in there?

2) Should we be restricting ourselves to Greek and Latin, given the Digital Classicist explicitly does not restrict itself to the Greco-Roman world?

3) Is the division between "literary", "inscriptions and papyri", and "other" an adequate one, or could these perhaps be usefully split into multiple pages?

Please feel free to address your thoughts to the list, or to sign into the Wiki and make changes yourself.

Many thanks,

Gabby


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