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The inscription CEG 28 (Attica, ca. 540-530?) contains the sole example of the dative plural φρασίν in Attic Greek. It occurs in a hexameter, which ends φραϲιν : αλα μενοινον : (= φρασὶν ἄλλα μενοινῶν). It is clear that this dative plural must be the older form of the n-stem φρήν, showing as it does the expected vocalization of the zero grade, *-ṇ-si. Elsewhere in Attic, and indeed almost everywhere else in Greek, it has been analogically replaced by φρεσί. However, scholars have noted that it is not isolated: φρασί occurs twice in Pindar (P.4.219, N.

The aim of this contribution is to study the morphological way in which Lycian personal names are integrated in Greek. Contact between Lycians and Greeks began early within the context of commercial and cultural exchange despite the alignment of Lycia with Persia until 334 BCE. From the 5^th century BCE onward this contact is attested by bilingual and trilingual (Greek-Lycian-Aramaic) inscriptions and by the adaptation of Lycian personal names in Greek inscriptions.

In this paper, I wish to show how elements of Neoplatonism such as the hierarchical structure of “being” available through the dynamics of cosmological descent and soteriological ascent might revitalize contemporary philosophy in the face of its present post-deconstruction impasse.

One of the most intriguing of the new directions in Neoplatonic scholarship, and one that still needs a huge deal of research, concerns Christian Neoplatonism, and in particular Patristic Neoplatonism. I will investigate how, through which channels, and with what adaptations the trans-school philosophical doctrine of oikeiōsis was received and transformed by the two main Patristic Neoplatonists: Origen of Alexandria (end second - first half of the third century CE) and Gregory of Nyssa (second half of the fourth century).

Plotinus locates the difficulty over the derivation of all things from the One as the central problem in metaphysics:

"But [soul] desires [a solution] to the problem which is so often discussed, even by the ancient sages, as to how from the One, being such as we say the One is, anything can be constituted, either a multiplicity, a dyad, or a number; [why] it did not stay by itself, but so great a multiplicity flowed out as is seen in the real beings and which we think correct to refer back to the One." (V.1.6.38).

Infamously, Walter Bröcker entitled one of his lectures on the philosophy of Plotinus Platonismus ohne Sokrates and therein burdened the Neoplatonic tradition with an undeserving characteristic. The actual fact of the matter, however, was that many Neoplatonists, including those who were conspicuously silent with regards to the life and philosophy of the son of Sophroniscus, e.g. Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus, still inherited the methods and goals of Socratic philosophy, including the commitment to dialogic inquiry through question and answer and the search for self-knowledge.

Duke University recently completed Integrating Digital Papyrology, a five-year project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aimed at (1) uniting the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens, and the Advanced Papyrological Information System under common, standards-based, sustainable technical control, and (2) erecting a technological framework for open and transparent, peer-reviewed, version-controlled, community-based, scholarly curation of these projects.

The aim of this presentation is to introduce the practice of linguistic annotation to the audience by focusing on the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT), promoted by the Perseus Project [2]. Treebanks are text corpora where each word is annotated with information on morphology and syntactical relations. The recent appearance of a syntactically annotated corpus of Greek and Latin texts is a unique opportunity for scholars. On the one hand, some of the most sophisticated technologies for corpus-based research can be made available to the community of classicists.

This paper presents emerging computational techniques that allow the extraction of three-dimensional (or equivalent) information from standard digital photographs. It focuses on two techniques: photogrammetry and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI). Photogrammetry involves the extrapolation of 3D information from digital photographs taken of the same subject from different positions; RTI combines a series of photographs taken of the same subject from the same position, but with different lighting, to create still images that can be interactively re-lit.

This paper demonstrates the utility, and sometimes futility, of using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in ancient history. I have been experimenting with Social Network Analysis and the free downloadable tool NODEXL in the study of Pericles, Philip II, Alexander the Great, as well as the Amarna Letters, and I have also explored limiting factors and will discuss where it might not work, as well.