3.539 e-texts: answers and a quesion (82)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:57:01 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 539. Wednesday, 4 Oct 1989.
(1) Date: 4 October 1989, 08:40:06 EDT (8 lines)
From: Brad Inwood (416) 978-3178 INWOOD at UTOREPAS
Subject: e-Plotinus
(2) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:01 EST (12 lines)
From: F5400000@LAUVAX01.BITNET
Subject: Electronic textbooks?
(3) Date: Wednesday, 4 October 1989 2002-EST (36 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: TLG CD-ROM Resources
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Date: 4 October 1989, 08:40:06 EDT
From: Brad Inwood (416) 978-3178 INWOOD at UTOREPAS
Subject: e-Plotinus
the simplest way to get a well verified electronic text of plotinus is to
access the thesaurus linguae graecae data base. there are various ways of
doing that, depending on your hardware setup and budget.
brad inwood
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:01 EST
From: F5400000@LAUVAX01.BITNET
Subject: Electronic textbooks?
I have just had the discouraging experience of finding out a
textbook I was using in a correspondence course has gone out of
print. I am sure most of us have endured this at one time or
another. Might it be a reasonable idea to urge publishers to
keep a backlog of machine readable texts of textbooks which (for
a fee naturally) academics could access when the hardcopy form is
not available? John Sandys-Wunsch F5400000 @
LAUVAX01.LAURENTIAN.CA
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Date: Wednesday, 4 October 1989 2002-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: TLG CD-ROM Resources
In response to HUMANIST queries from Willard (himself) McCarty
and Harold Wilson regarding ancient Greek texts, I spent some
time at the local IBYCUS Scholarly Computer with the TLG CD-ROM
this morning. In case these issues have not yet been solved,
(1) Plotinus Enneads is on the TLG CD-ROM -- contact Theodore
Brunner and his staff at TLG (U CAL at Irvine) = TLG@UCI.BITNET.
(2) The two unidentified quotations mediated through Willard
were slightly different from what I take to be their sources on
the TLG disk --
oudeis prosaitwn bioton hraqh brotwn is in Euripides Frgs.322
topwn metabolai oute fronhsin didaskousin oute afrosunhn afaireontai
is in Libanius Frgs.88.40ff.
These were not difficult to locate by searching all of the
TLG greek texts asking for the least problematic portions of
the root words (e.g. find both prosait and brot, find both
afrousun and afairoun). I let the machine run while I did other
things. It goes through the entire corpus in about 45 minutes.
I spent a LOT of time doing such searches for attendees at
the Cairo Papyrological conference last month, with excellent
results as well!
Bob Kraft (CCAT)
[On behalf of my Italian colleague, thanks to Bob Kraft and to
another Humanist, William McCarthy, for locating the two quotations
in the TLG. My colleague looked there as well but somehow didn't
have such success. Wonderful thing, the TLG. It is especially
wonderful for untrained renegades like myself, who can by such means
steal into the otherwise impregnable preserve and grab the goods.
The effects on classical studies may be quite interesting, quite
surprising to some, yes? --W.M.]