The Cartographic Satyricon: Digital Pedagogy For The Mapping of Literary Geographies
By Sarah E. Bond
This paper examines the ways in which students and researchers can begin to engage with texts more deeply through digital tools that allow better geographic visualization of both historical and literary topographies. This pedagogical approach is exemplified through the text of the Satyricon. At the beginning of Petronius’ Satyricon, Encolpius bemoans the worthlessness of gaining an education from a umbraticus doctor, a “cloistered instructor” who teaches students nothing of use in daily life by using inapplicable rhetorical exercises (2.4).
Representation and Student Research Topics: The Archives of Classical Scholarship
By Sarah A. Buchanan
We present a digital resource, the Archives of Classical Scholarship, that advances student research by fostering discovery, topical breadth, and affinity with preceding scholars' groundwork, enriching the field generally. The universe of classical scholarship spans disciplines, centuries, and national boundaries, and classicists embrace a globally diverse textual corpus. In classical studies classrooms, instructors endeavor to introduce students to specific topics while also raising awareness of the areas where scholars have dedicated years and decades of effort.
An Online Database of the Meters of Roman Comedy
By Timothy J. Moore
This paper introduces and explains how to use a new online database that records all metrical changes in the extant plays of Plautus and Terence (http://romancomedy.wulib.wustl.edu/).