Pietro Maria Liuzzo

What can be done with data about the manuscript tradition of Eritrea and Ethiopia using Text Encoding Initiative and Linked Open Data? In Digital Approaches to Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies Pietro Maria Liuzzo discusses with practical examples, for the scholars of this field with little or no digital competences, how to exploit openly accessible data in the Web, based on the experience of the Beta maṣāḥǝft (2016–) and TraCES (2014–2019) projects based at Universität Hamburg.
Each chapter of the book focuses on specific aspects related to different types of written artefacts, to look into features of codicology, literary tradition, distribution in space, and historical geography. Lexicographic resources are also discussed and exploratory queries are presented and commented in order to provide the reader not only with results but with the means to reproduce these examples on the same or on other datasets. Special attention is given to ways in which openly accessible and collaboratively edited data pertaining to the manuscript traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea can be used by researchers in connection with other openly available datasets. This book aims at rising curiosity for the use of TEI and LOD among specialists in Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, but also provides scholars in Digital Humanities with discussions of the principles driving the choices made for the digital products of the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies.

L'edizione digitale di FGrHist 104 riproduce e aggiorna le parti rilevanti del lavoro dottorale disponibile al seguente link: amsdottorato.unibo.it/6257/
Questa edizione digitale è completa di introduzione, testo, apparato critico, traduzione, indice dei luoghi e delle persone, cronologia. Il Commento storico è disponibile tramite Hypothes.is e può essere espanso con contributi di altri utenti senza limiti. Il testo è edito in TEI XML ed è disponibile in modalità Openaccess e Opensource insieme a tutto il codice documentato utilizzato per la produzione dell'edizione.

This paper presents two modules, one serving the IIIF presentation API, and another the three Distributed Text Services API specifications (Collection, Navigation and Document), as well as an additional experimental Web Annotation and indexes API. These are all served from XML TEI data with a RESTxq XQuery module within an exist-db application which also benefits from direct access to a SPARQL Endpoint containing a serialization in RDF of some of the information in the XML. The setup is not uncommon: we have our data collaboratively edited in GitHub, indexed from there into exist-db and transformed with XSLT to RDF-XML. The RDF-XML is passed on to a Apache Jena Fuseki on the same server and is indexed there as well, as RDF so that the two datasets are parallel and updated synchronously. What I want to argue is that the setup itself and the code involved are integrating part of the knowledge being served. They make assumption on the existing data and build the additional representati...

Themistokles flight to Persia is a pivotal series of facts for any hypothetical chronology of the 60s of the fifth century BCE. The problem it poses can hardly be disentangled, but nevertheless, the difficulty in this historical context might be reassessed renouncing the sharp alternative between Xerxes and Artaxerxes, offered by Plutarch (Them 27.1). In this article all historiographical sources (Ctesias, Diodorus, Maneto) related to the succession to the throne after Xerxes death (too surely dated to a vague 465 BCE), are taken into consideration. The article suggests an hypothesis which includes oriental sources as well and does not let down suggestions offered by greek texts and authors other then Thucydides, as FGrHist 104 and Themistokles' Letters.

Erodoto, le cui figure femminili sono state ampiamente studiate fornisce molti esempi, immagini, episodi che possono essere rivisti con lo sguardo di un femminismo nuovo, inteso come “rivoluzione in ascolto della vita quotidiana”, per usare una felice espressione di Chiara Zamboni. Pensiero della differenza e metodo per analogie e antilogie sono il punto di incontro di due ambiti di ricerca alternativi. Rileggo la trasmissione delle tradizioni erodotee in termini di Agire Femminile, pensiero della differenza, Economia della natalità, Schivata.

L’articolo analizza le somiglianze letterali tra Tucidide 2.49, Saffo fr. 31 Voigt e
Plutarco Demetr. 38 ed evidenzia la presenza di paralleli letterali. Ripercorrendo la critica
sul rapporto esistente tra Tucidide, l’epica e la lirica arcaiche, si giunge a un’ipotesi rispetto
a come e perché, tramite le fonti mediche, il testo di Saffo sia filtrato nella narrazione
tucididea.

The aim of this article is to verify this and demonstrate that this is just a way chosen from the copyist to help the reader in finding his way back in a booklet which is affected by an error which makes it difficult to follow the order of the different parts. Aristodemos is a name contained in the piece of text which the copyist refers to, not the name of a new historian as the first editor has made many think.

This paper is divided in two parts. The first looks at the case of multiple citations of Ephorus and Teopompus; the second at the sources of FGrHist 104. In the conclusion I argue that the sources of the latter, as a school product is part of a tradition generated as an effect of the Canon of historians and historical “Cycle”. This text was initially produced as a composite text with elements from Ephorus and others fromTeopompus. Fragmen- tary texts theory, the analysis of manuscripts and Quellenforschung, with the approach from multiple citations bring to the conclusion that FGrHist 104 is not a “fragmentary historian” neither a fragment, but it can be treated as a fragment of “Ephorus and Teo- pompus”.

Erodoto, le cui figure femminili sono state ampiamente studiate fornisce molti esempi, immagini, episodi che possono essere rivisti con lo sguardo di un femminismo nuovo, inteso come “rivoluzione in ascolto della vita quotidiana”, per usare una felice espressione di Chiara Zamboni. Pensiero della differenza e metodo per analogie e antilogie sono il punto di incontro di due ambiti di ricerca alternativi. Rileggo la trasmissione delle tradizioni erodotee in termini di Agire Femminile, pensiero della differenza, Economia della natalità, Schivata.

Themistokles flight to Persia is a pivotal series of facts for any hypothetical chronology of the 60s of the fifth century BCE. The problem it poses can hardly be disentangled, but nevertheless, the difficulty in this historical context might be reassessed renouncing the sharp alternative between Xerxes and Artaxerxes, offered by Plutarch (Them 27.1). In this article all historiographical sources (Ctesias, Diodorus, Maneto) related to the succession to the throne after Xerxes death (too surely dated to a vague 465 BCE), are taken into consideration. The article suggests an hypothesis which includes oriental sources as well and does not let down suggestions offered by greek texts and authors other then Thucydides, as FGrHist 104 and Themistokles' Letters.

The paper discusses possible models of interactions for projects in Digital Epigraphy starting from a selection of existing paradigms from the context of Digital Classics which are simply evaluated for their applicability. The Distributed Text Services specification is proposed as the basis for an optimal interoperation, and a test prototype is presented based on the use of this specification by four demo applications. A recommendation is then formulated on this for the future of digital epigraphy. Il presente contributo tratta di possibili modelli di interazione tra progetti di Epigrafia Digitale a cominciare da una selezione di modelli esistenti nel contesto delle Antichità greco-romane digitali, dei quali è offerta una valutazione di applicabilità semplificata. La specifica Distributed Text Services è quindi presentata come base per un modello di interazione ottimale e un prototipo viene presentato il quale si basa sull'utilizzo di questa specifica per una rete di quattro applicazioni demo. Per concludere viene avanzata una proposta su questa base mirata a superare i limiti tradizionali.

When looking at the text of Aristodemus (FGrHist 104, F1, §16), the similarities to Diodorus' 12.40 are so striking to leave little doubt about a conspicuous and clear relationship between these two historical works. However, the “direction” and features of this relationship are all but sure. Did Aristodemus manipulate Diodorus' work or vice versa? In either of the cases, for which reason where some information changed? No in depth research about Aristodemus’ text has been carried out to compare it with Diodorus’.

The author of FGrHist 104, the so called Aristodemus, wrote these pages using a source widely employed by other late historians, who relied upon a version of historical events differing from Diodorus' in several key points. Diodorus' Book 11 and Cod. Par. Suppl. Gr. 607 (the codex in which FGrHist 104 text is transmitted) share mistakes which led scholars to think that they were referring to the same source. However, these same mistakes are not in the other proved testimony of FGrHist 104: P.Oxy 2469.

One further piece of evidence is to be fond in CLGP, Aristophanes n°5, where the calumnies against Themistocles, support an hypothesis according to which a common tradition rooted in Stesimbrotus of Thasos had already undergone a ramification before being used by Diodorus. If we assume the persistence of the previous tradition in Aristodemus, we have here a clear sign of Diodorus' work on sources in addition to Ephorus which might be drawn back to Theopompus with a first ramification of traditions which could have taken place at a stage between Anaximenes of Lampsacus and Duris of Samos. The information about Themistocles death, which spread immediately after it underwent a clear manipulation operated by his sons to regain power and then used in historiographical writing in different ways according to the needs and objectives of the tradition carrier. 
With this case study I will show how informations where conveyed and manipulate by greek historians and both the powerful influence of genre could be more affecting the text at a stage later then IV century, rather then the manipulation for political purposes which instead operated just at the beginning of the transmission process.

Plato's ζῶντα καὶ ἔμψυχον conversation in Pheadrus 276A is recognizable as one of the foundations of modern theories on communication. In this passage a meaningful difference between reported performance and narrated conversation is made explicit. A number of other texts emphasises this difference in the understanding of verbal interchange as conversation, where a major role is given to the phatic function of communication and to the “continuous re-negotiation of meanings” (Ronchi 2003, 24), rather than as dialogue. Further epigraphical (e.g. LSAG 103 n.11) and literary (e.g. Callimacus Epig. XII) evidence from different periods, can be found to demonstrate the perception of “phatic communion” as practised by ancient Greeks. Conversational turn-taking has indeed a great importance in all Greek written tradition and so does the implied content of this conversation: in ancient historical writing both take a crucial role and a peculiar value. Can the narrated “act” of speaking (ἐνάργεια) be a hint to a “fact” (ἔργον)? Might what is tacitly assumed (ἄρρητον) be identified with some certainty through classical rhetorical analysis of the different turns? Might this be found enough significant to be taken into account for a reconstruction of events? Some examples from Herodotus (e.g. 5.92, 7.5-10) will highlight the importance which is associated by Greek society  to silence and wrong turn-taking in assemblies. The former results in a dangerous and eloquent conversational turn-taking, which gives extra-meaning to the following speech;  the latter is felt as erroneous and inadequate, regardless of the spoken content.

The paper discusses a small ontology to describe the features of the execution techniques of inscriptions, based on a recent contribution discussing the classification methodologies. The modeling is done on the basis of existing recent attempts to model epigraphic documents and not on a general evaluation of existing ontologies. The ontology described is used in parallel to enrich and further structure the EAGLE Vocabularies for Execution Technique, which uses SKOS, with possibly immediate impact on the many projects using the concepts contained there.

The description of manuscripts with TEI offers a good ground with its structure and architecture to provide also a structural description following the methodology laid out in La Syntaxe du Codex. Essai de codicologie structurale. To carry out this task an Ontology has been devised from the concepts defined in the book and used to leverage a deep description from a set of complementary statements in <relation> elements. This contribution describes this method as it is implemented to support cataloguing needs in the collaborative research environment Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea and then tested also on one of the examples of the book, available as TEI in e-codices.

La digitalizzazione delle iscrizioni: metodi e tecniche Poche discipline possono vantare di aver digitalizzato la quasi integrità del patrimonio documentario di loro interesse come l'epigrafia latina e greca ([12];[13]). Con trent'anni di esperienza nella digitalizzazione delle iscrizioni, l'epigrafia può vantare di essere arrivata molto vicino a questo risultato, 1 ma ha anche imparato molto sulla sostenibilità di tale impresa e sul continuo impegno che essa comporta. Nel corso del progetto EAGLE (Europeana Network for Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 2013-2016) è stato per esempio realizzato un modello, basato sull'affermato standard TEI/EpiDoc ([1];[4];[10]) in grado di garantire una mappatura a CIDOC-CRM e all'EMD (Europeana Metadata Model). Questo lavoro ha reso possibile non solo lo sviluppo del portale EAGLE con le sue funzionalità fino ad allora solo auspicate dalla comunità internazionale degli epigrafisti, ma ha anche permesso di raccogliere un significativo consorzio di partner e di produrre risorse aggiuntive, come ad esempio la Virtual Exhibition "Signs of Life" che raccoglie link a progetti, 3D, infografica in una introduzione per non addetti ai lavori ([9]).

I primi 40 secondi di questo video sono un pezzetto di storia. Guardate prima di continuare a leggere. http://youtu.be/LnfB-pUm3eI Un vecchio programma della BBC 2 (1972) che poi è diventato anche un libro. Avevo letto il libro, edizione Penguin, dove si parla anche di "Ambasciatori" (​ http://www.clammmag.com/vanitas/​). Non avevo mai visto il video. Quando sono entrato nella saletta, di fianco al ritaglio sbiadito sotto vetro, andava il punto del video proprio nel momento del taglio e mi è letteralmente preso un colpo. Solo dopo un po' ho realizzato che non poteva essere: Botticelli, intero, l'ho visto che non è molto. Questo pezzetto di video, non è solo un pezzetto di Storia, un evento con la E maiuscola, ma anche un pezzo della mostra ​ John Berger-Art and Property Now (art and archives connected to the celebrated storyteller)​ ospitata dal livello-1 di questo posto Lo so perché mentre percorrevo lo Strand, neanche a dirlo correndo in stazione per evitare la fastidiosa e perenne pioggerella, ho intravisto con la coda dell'occhio questo:

Irene Rossi, Annamaria De Santis, Pietro M. Liuzzo (2019). 17 EAGLE Continued: IDEA. The International Digital Epigraphy Association. Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline (pp. 216–230). Warsaw, Poland: De Gruyter Open. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208-018

Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208

Online ISBN: 9783110607208