Lingua Latina
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But all that night dutiful Aeneas was turning many things over in his mind. As soon as life-giving morning came, he decided to go out and explore this new land and bring back to his men a true account of the shores to which the winds had driven him, and the beasts and men who lived there, if there were any men, for he saw no signs of cultivation. Here too is . . .the Minotaur . . . the memorial to a perverted love, and here is its home, built with such great labor, the inextricable labyrinth
As promised, I am back in action with some new widgets for the new semester! (Today is the first day of classes for me at the University of Oklahoma - regular classes start on August 22, but I always begin my online courses a week early to try to grab the students' attention before their classroom adventures begin.) I'll have a regular edition of the Bestiaria on Tuesday; for today, I wanted to announce the new widgets (below) and to explain just what blogs I'll be working on during the Fall semester (since I don't actually teach Latin - vae mihi!
A New Semester
The Ancient Web - the Ancient World's Great Civilizations
The Ancient Wall as a Cultural Barrier The great wall of china is the most monumental barrier ever created in the ancient world. It is easily the most popular image we associate with the ancient Chinese Empire itself, but it has become so mythologized by in our imagination that we don’t realize it was actually the most extreme cultural barrier ever created.Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away.
Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
Much thanks to those who have shaped the development including Prof Susan Setnik, Prof Gregory Crane, Prof Betsey Halpern, Prof Steven Hirsch, and all of the undergrad and grad student usability testers, including the Fall 2008 Latin 3 class, especially Kevin Hillburn, EJ Testa, Emeka Nwabuzor, Ryan Zuckman, and Cori Russo, Alan Mui, Dan Zhen, Kwaku Osei-Tutu, and Ian Drummond, Molly Gayton, Leonora Mahler, Zachary Fenno, and many more. A further deep debt of gratitude to William Whitaker, for his Words , and to The Latin Library . Icons of monitor, projector, and printer copyright the Oxygen Project, licensed under the GPL.
Latin texts with adjustable interlinear vocabulary: no dictionaries.
Perseus Digital Library
January 3, 2012 Tufts University invites applications to "Working with Text in a Digital Age" , a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics. Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit proposals by February 15, 2012.
Myths