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In May 2022, the Yale University Art Gallery opened its inaugural gallery dedicated to the display of numismatic objects. As part of the gallery design, the curatorial department was faced with an age-old question: how do you effectively display an object with multiple sides? Being the only curatorial department, at the time, seeking digital offerings to enhance the visitor experience, the Bela Lyon Pratt Gallery of Numismatics became the Art Gallery's first exhibition space to utilize mobile-triggered technology to help depict the full contexts of displayed objects.

Open Commentaries, a project of the New Alexandria Foundation, aims to allow scholars, educators, and enthusiasts to annotate and edit public domain texts. Previously, Open Commentaries maintained its own editing and reading environments, which, while accessible to editors and non-technical users, took resources away from the platform's core functionality of publishing digital editions. It also required editors to translate their work from their usual environment — Microsoft Word vel sim. — to Open Commentaries' writing tools.

This project essentially uses software designed for creating “mind maps,” diagrams representing concepts linked to and arranged around a central idea — in this case, Medea – in order to map the character throughout time, space, and media. Thus, the intersecting patterns of her reception are revealed by a kind of living illustration: a map that moves as research does, allowing the user to both zoom in to trace a specific line of thought and zoom out to see it within a wider context.

I have developed software to analyze the melodic patterning of pitch accents in Greek lyric texts. In the ancient musical documents that survive with music notation, the rises and falls of the melody are often coordinated with the pitch contours of the word accents according to set principles. I have created a suite of python algorithms that apply these principles to texts with no melodic notation. In the case of Greek tragedy, my software compares the texts of paired stanzas (originally sung to the same music) and calculates various statistics on their musical qualities.

We will present on the Ugarit Translation Alignment editor and its applications. Ugarit is a web environment that facilitates the creation of manually aligned parallel corpora, and it is specifically designed for historical and low-resourced languages. The aligned corpora are published online and used for pedagogy and integration with reading interfaces. The resulting data are currently used in research, for the systematic comparison of translations, the study of textual transmission and cross-linguistic dynamics, and for the creation of dynamic lexica.

Coloniality is a key part of constituting classicism, as it defines civilization through its literal and conceptual border-making. I approach this border-making through the influence of the Classical Tradition in its in its simultaneous construction and perpetuation alongside the development of American archeology, where I center the interests of classically-trained early anthropologists in New Mexico and surrounding regions.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, British Imperialism was reaching its peak in the New World (Bradley; Buckner). Operating on the territories of what is now collectively known as Canada, the Hudson’s Bay Company was incorporated by English Royal Charter in 1670 ("HBC Royal Charter"), and quickly came to dominate much of the English-controlled Hudson’s Bay drainage basin.

The Spanish missionary Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote his “Defense of the Indians” in response to the theologian and philosopher Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda’s “On the Just Causes of War against the Indians”. Both Las Casas and Sepúlveda point to Aristotle, among other ancient and Christian scholars, as a source of justification for their arguments.

Punic-speaking Africans appear occasionally in the writings of Augustine of Hippo. As a father, he recounts a conversation between himself and his adolescent son, Adeodatus, over the definition of a Punic word. As a bishop, Augustine had to find ways of preaching to the rural communities around the metropolitan center of Hippo who did not speak Latin. Both Adeodatus and the rural Punic speakers of Africa survive in the record under the shadow of the prolific writer and famous theologian.

The Latin poem Radivilias (1592) by Jonas Radvanas is the best poetic fruit of the Neo-latin epic genre, flowered within the boarder of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, at the end of the 16th century. The poem in four books, following the classical epic lectio (the Virgilian and Homeric ones), represents some very little-known war events in Eastern Europe which go under the name of ‘Livonian war’ (1558-1583): a series of campaigns conducted by the Russian czar Ivan ‘the Terrible' looking for the access to the Baltic Sea.