Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force
among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present …

Greek'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the
poor relation of mainstream'great'Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably …

Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding
augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous …

The study of intertextuality, or how authors make artistic use of other texts in their works, has
a long tradition, and has in recent years benefited from a variety of applications of digital …

The study of intertextuality has been a central pursuit of scholars of Greek and especially
Latin literature. It promises to reveal the meaning of texts for original audiences, trace …

The study of textual reuse is of fundamental importance in reconstructing lost or partially lost
texts, passages of which can be partly recovered through other texts in which they have …

The goal of this document is to present a fragmentary texts demo built under Perseids, a
collaborative platform being developed by the Perseus Project that leverages and extends …

This paper describes how the digital revolution is changing the way scholars access,
analyze, and represent historical fragmentary texts, with a focus on traces of quotations and …

In this article we discuss ongoing work on documenting text-reuse in the Deipnosophistae of
Athenaeus of Naucratis. We present a data model for identifying uniquely instances of text …

This paper presents a joint project of the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the
University of Leipzig, the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University, and the Harvard Center …