Summer2020 Session 6

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2020

Session 6. Digital classics and learning Greek in Iran

Thursday May 14, 17:00-18:15 CEST

Convenors: Farnoosh Shamsian (University of Leipzig)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ernL2sRGJ-U

Slides

Session outline

• A short introduction on the importance of learning Greek for Persian speakers
• Reviewing the challenges of learning Greek in Iran
• Introducing available resources in Persian for learning Greek
• Discussing the method of teaching used in the ongoing online course
• Employment of translation alignment as a tool for learning Greek
• Contemplating on the early results of the course

Reference materials

Students' midterm alignments in Ugarit:

• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27416
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27421
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27420
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27417
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27242
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27249
• http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/text.php?id=27318

Prof. Gorman’s treebanks for Thucydides

• https://perseids-publications.github.io/gorman-trees/thuc-1-1-20-bu5/1

Seminar readings

Reading Ancient Greek in the Digital Age: An online, open-access course in Attic Greek

• https://vgorman1.github.io/Greek-Language-Class/

Further reading

• Crane et al. (2019). "Confronting Complexity of Babel in a Global and Digital Age". DH2019 Book of Abstracts, https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0611.html

• Gregory Crane (2019), "Beyond Translation: Language Hacking and Philology." Harvard Data Science Review 1.2. Available: https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.282ad764

Exercise

Align Thuc.1.1 with one or two of the translations available on Perseus using http://www.ugarit.ialigner.com/
Compare your final alignment with the other alignments linked on this page.
How different are they? Which words are the most controversial for aligning?
Try to find patterns in the differences.

You can find the Greek text of Thuc.1.1 with different translations on Scaife viewer:
https://scaife.perseus.org/library/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003/