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Along with the mass of digitized Latin texts now available to researchers for computational analysis, there exists a number of different formats, markup strategies, encodings, and various editorial decisions that can make it difficult to incorporate texts from various sources into research projects without considerable preparatory work. In this workshop, I demonstrate use of CLTK Readers, a Python-based solution to streamlining the process of working with different collections of Ancient Greek and Latin texts.

The project centers around a small focus group of 6-12th grade educators and their feedback on the usage potential of the Yorescape app in their classrooms. Yorescape, a Flyover Zone application (www.yorescape.com), allows users to stream virtual tours of ancient archaeological sites led by experts that include reconstructions of the site’s ancient appearance.

The primary goal of this project is to show the complexity of the trade of Attic and other Greek pottery and the role of traders in relation to workshops through social network analysis (SNA). This is conducted through the encoding trademark and other branding data known for Greek pottery and analyzing it through the program NodeXL. The current focus revolves around the trademark data catalogued and organized into a typology by Alan W Johnston in his Trademarks on Greek Vases (1979) and Trademarks on Greek Vases; Addendum (2006).

The Ugarit Translation Alignment Editor is a web environment that facilitates the creation of manually aligned parallel texts at word-level in historical and low-resourced languages. We currently host 45 languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Hebrew, Georgian, and Armenian, and have over 500 users.

My talk starts from two elements: a well-known fact and an ancient remark. The fact is that the genre of Attic oratory is permeated by commonplaces or topoi, as Aristotle calls them. The ancient remark is attributed by Thucydides to Cleon, who says that the Athenians are “the easy victims of newfangled arguments (kainotētos), unwilling to follow received conclusions (dedokimasmenou); slaves to every new paradox (atopōn), despisers of the commonplace (eiōthotōn)” (3.38.5, trans. Jowett).

My talk examines the epigrams attributed to Sappho (AP 6.269, 7.489, 7.505) and Erinna (AP 6.352, 7.710, 7.712) as ancient case studies in co-opting and re-defining female authorship in the genre of epigram, and as a demonstration of the unique conceptual possibilities of epigram as pseudepigraphon.

In this presentation I argue that the dominant narratives about Plato’s rivalry with his sophistic contemporaries do not sufficiently account for formal similarities between philosophical and sophistic methodology.

Queer failures of form in the Hippokratic case history of Phaethousa of Abdera (Epidemics VI 8.32)

Venus, writes Saidiya Hartman, is a "ubiquitous presence […] in the archive of Atlantic slavery," the "emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atlantic world" (Hartman 2008: 1). Venus is also an emblem for Black women in Robin Coste Lewis's poem "Voyage of the Sable Venus," which draws from museum labels and descriptions to highlight how the art world obfuscates the Black female identity.

Taking after Shelley Haley's 1993 open inquiry around the potential that Black Feminism and classicism had to offer one another in her essay "Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-Claiming, Re-Empowering", this paper aims to bridge two very separate essays on Black classicisms and the myth of Medea--Haley's 1995's "Self-Definition, Community, and Resistance: Euripides' 'Medea' and Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'" and Jackie Murray's 2019 "W.E.B. Du Bois' The Quest of the Silver Fleece: The Education of Black Medea".