Publication of the new critical edition of the Sylloge Parisina
On the occasion of the publication of the new critical edition of the Sylloge Parisina by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre in the Ario series, two launch events will take place.
At Sorbonne Université on 4 November, as part of the seminar of the Lucia Floridi Digital Humanities Initiative, Lucia Floridi (ed.) and Mathilde Verstraete will give a lecture devoted to this collection of epigrams, the editorial process that led to its completion, and the resulting publication. The lecture will take place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in SCAI – Seminar Room, Jussieu Campus.
The volume will also be presented as part of the anniversary conference of the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, on 5 November at 5:30 p.m. at the Maison de l’Université de Rouen.
About the volume
Following the editio princeps by John Anthony Cramer (1841), this volume presents the first critical edition of the collection of Greek epigrams known as the Sylloge Parisina, preserved in a manuscript dating from the 12th–13th century and in a partial apograph dating from the mid-14th century.
The introduction describes the manuscript witnesses, discusses the dating, structure, and contents of the collection, and reflects on the anthological transmission of Greek epigrams and on the editorial history of the collection. The epigrams are accompanied by Italian and French translations, making them accessible to non-specialists as well. The traditional print format is complemented by a digital edition, which makes it possible to experiment with new forms of text visualization, making the different structures assumed by the text in the various witnesses more immediately perceptible.
About the series
The Ario series aims to experiment with the editorial processes involved in critical and scholarly editions, with the ambition of producing books that explore the possibilities for the evolution of the philological tradition in digital environments. The Sylloge Parisina was encoded in LaTeX (ekdosis) for the printed version, and a first TEI output was subsequently transformed using XSLT.