Currently, no 'canonical' classical text with a multi-testimonial tradition has a digital scholarly edition based on a complete digital transcription of all primary sources, and on the automated collation of those transcriptions. Most classicists simply do not feel that they need such editions. I argue that this is ultimately due to the 'canonization' of the corpus of classical texts. Classicists are more focussed on the 'Text' than on the documents (manuscripts) and their texts: they tend not to consider the textual variance in the manuscripts as culturally meaningful in itself, but merely instrumental in view of the constitutio textus. I suspect that we will not have 'comprehensively digital' editions of 'canonical' classical texts with a multi-testimonial tradition until classical philology broadens its research agenda.

Monella, P. (2018). Why are there no comprehensively digital scholarly editions of classical texts?. In A. Cipolla (a cura di), Digital Philology: New Thoughts on Old Questions (pp. 141-159). Padova : libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni.

Why are there no comprehensively digital scholarly editions of classical texts?

Monella, Paolo
2018-01-01

Abstract

Currently, no 'canonical' classical text with a multi-testimonial tradition has a digital scholarly edition based on a complete digital transcription of all primary sources, and on the automated collation of those transcriptions. Most classicists simply do not feel that they need such editions. I argue that this is ultimately due to the 'canonization' of the corpus of classical texts. Classicists are more focussed on the 'Text' than on the documents (manuscripts) and their texts: they tend not to consider the textual variance in the manuscripts as culturally meaningful in itself, but merely instrumental in view of the constitutio textus. I suspect that we will not have 'comprehensively digital' editions of 'canonical' classical texts with a multi-testimonial tradition until classical philology broadens its research agenda.
2018
Monella, P. (2018). Why are there no comprehensively digital scholarly editions of classical texts?. In A. Cipolla (a cura di), Digital Philology: New Thoughts on Old Questions (pp. 141-159). Padova : libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni.
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