Dagmar Van Engen Introduction to Advanced Research 6-7-2011

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Introduction to Advanced Research

6-7-2011

Greek and Roman Materials Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser Arabic Materials Germanic Materials 19th Century American Renaissance Materials Richmond Times Dispatch

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Entries

Reading more than one sentence at a timeWell, what does “in principio” mean?

Latin Word Study Tool

The dictionary entry

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I can’t read this in Latin . . .

It comes in English, too!

Texts that reference this chapter:

Search Me

Wait, there’s more: the map function

Places

Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander

The Historical SparkNotes

So how about English literature?

The Renaissance Collection

• Shakespeare• Spenser• Marlowe• Bacon• James I• Lanyer

Places in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

More about Kentucky

Search for person, place, or date

The Germanic Collection

Oh, yeah, there’s Beowulf. . . but no vocabulary help!

I don’t speak Old English.

Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser

Pots and Paintings:

Berlin F 2531

Accuracy Currency Purpose Audience Coverage Style and Functionality

Assessing Perseus

Lots of Civil War texts in 19th Century American Collection – especially Confederate (“The Great Rebellion”?)

Greek and Roman section has translations for almost everything. Good for catching up on classical references.

Visual location bar is fun Easy to skip between original and

translated text

Perseus is wonderful because . . .

Plenty of search functions Can search for a person or a place across

all the Perseus texts References to the text in other Perseus

texts are easily accessible Google maps for Thucydides and Livy

Perseus is wonderful because . . .

Old English texts Old English language help Up-to-date Greek and Latin dictionaries Early Modern materials People and place searches for texts Text on one page: viewing a whole text at one

time

I wish Perseus had more . . .

“Fourth-generation collections integrate not only . . . text and the original page images but also other forms of annotation (e.g., morphological and syntactic analysis, indices of people and places, markup for the particular sense of particular words in context).”

“We are . . . preparing to convert a range of such print resources into structured, machine-actionable form including lexica, grammars, commentaries, editions, editions of surviving texts and editions of fragmentary authors.”Thoughts and

Questions