This page collects lesser-known
digital resources for classical
philology not mentioned in
Zeztel’s bibliographical essay
Commonest Abbreviations, Signs, etc. Used in the Apparatus to a Classical Text (Maurer/Scullion)
A New Introduction to Bibliography (Gaskell)
The Nomenclature of Manuscripts (Hall)
Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets (Oates et al.)
FAQ – Greek Language & Script (Unicode Consortium)
Unicode allows circumflex on the first vowel of a diphthong, eg U+03BFU+0313U+0342 ὀ͂, which makes it possible to reproduce early modern typography.
Greek Unicode Issues (Nicholas)
a wide-ranging series from TLG years
Ancient Greek | Uncial keyboards (Nègre)
actively maintained mobile keyboards
Distinguishing æ and œ (DPWiki)
The ‘zero genitive’ (Quirk et al.)
one of the places where this older grammar shines
The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin Proper Names in English (Miller)
The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin (Sargeaunt/Bradley)
History of Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Dictionary (Brill)
The Latinizations of the Modern Surname (Bywater)
Doesn’t cover full names, which are another story. See also Des noms latins.
Franciscus Modius als Handschriftenforscher (Lehmann)
The Firm of BG Teubner and its Connection with Classical Learning (Arethusa)
Die Loslösung des kritischen Apparates von den Texten war ein Mißstand, der sich aus dem ursprünglichen Plane des Unternehmens fast mit Notwendigkeit herausgebildet hatte: waren doch anfänglich nur Ausgaben für Schulzwecke vorgesehen, für die ein Apparat unter dem Texte entbehrlich erschien. (Norden)
Professor Key and Doctor Wagner: An Episode in the History of Victorian Scholarship (Glucker)
E. L. Mark’s system of citation (Chernin)
aka author–date, the only option when the use of notes is out of the question
M. L. West and the British Philological Method (Nikolaev)
from the horse’s mouth
The Source of the Aldine Edition of Aeschylus’ Supplices (McCall)
The Manuscript Tradition of Aeschines’ Orations (Diller)
Textual problems in Ar. Thesm. (Austin)
on Biset, Chrestien, Ellebodius, Casaubon, Faber, Bentley, Daubuz, Kaibel, Wilamowitz and early editions
The Manuscripts of Asconius and Pseudo-Asconius (Welsh)
The Fictitious MSS. of Bosius (Clark)
Prolegomena to Claudian (Hall 1986)
the real preface of the Teubner text
Sigla for Euripidean Manuscripts (Mastronarde)
plus description of each manuscript
Die Editio Princeps Aldina des Euripides und ihre Vorlagen (Sicherl)
Markland’s notes on Juvenal (Willis)
ed. pr.
Editing Lucretius (Zetzel)
Perhaps the most disturbing word in the passage … is “Fortschritte”: D[eufert] presents the history of the text from its recovery in the ninth century up to the twenty-first century as an account of progress, and he eliminates those moments that he considers irrelevant to the onward march of Wissenschaft.… D.’s apparatus sacrifices breadth for focus, and unsurprisingly his focus is on the text that he thinks best (his own), and on the kinds of emendations of which he approves. That kind of teleological approach is perhaps inevitable, but the result is that D.’s apparatus implies a narrative written backward, a history of criticism of Lucretius intended to explain and justify his own text. That kind of Whig history has long been discredited in other historical disciplines …
Schleiermacher as Plato Scholar (Lamm)
The Platonic Textual Tradition: A Bibliography (Joyal 2022)
Carl Müller (1813–1894), S. Jacobs, and the making of classical maps in Paris for John Murray (Talbert)
Jurisconsultus Perfectus: The Lawyer as Renaissance Man (Kelley)
Emericus Cruceus’ Conjectures on the “Thebaid” and the “Achilleid” (1620) (Berlincourt 2011)
The Statius of Gronovius and Lond. BL Royal 15.C.X and 15.A.XXI (Berlincourt 2016)
Gronovius used F (or F2), g, H, O, P, R, U3 and U4.
Philologists profess to have read Pasquali and taken him to heart, but that sort of profession is often a superficial act, performed if anything to excuse oneself from the task of reading a complicated book, seeing all its implications, and re-thinking practices which have become reflexes. Pasquali’s work, though cited at every turn, remains little appreciated. For certain periods and texts the concept of the vulgate has a particular lot to offer and has not been applied as it should not even by Pasquali himself.
Thucydides MSS Used by Poppo, Arnold, Other Old Editors (Maurer)
The Emendation of Vitruvius (Granger)
Krohn has attributed to later German scholars emendations due to Schneider, Voss, and Turnebus. The work of tracing emendations to their authors is far from complete in my edition, although I have carried the work of Schneider, Rose, and Krohn a step farther.