Open-accessed Galen. Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I from DE GRUYTER AKADEMIE FORSCHUNG

Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I-III versio Arabica /
Galen. Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I

http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=531190

Fichtner's Bibliographies to Hippocrates and to Galen from BBAW

The Site of CMG has put online two of Fichtner's valuable bibliographies to Hippocrates and to Galen in pdf-ormat. The pdf-files can be downloaded from the website for private use only.

http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Galen-Bibliographie_2015-09.pdf

http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Hippokrates-Bibliographie_2015_02_19.pdf

A Companion to Classical Receptions, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008

A Companion to Classical Receptions, edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008.

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.

• Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics
• Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices
• Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion
• Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics

Chapter 11"Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics", pp. 141 ff. is written by the Late Ahmed Etman.

SNAP: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies

From the website of the project:

SNAP:DRGN is building a virtual authority list for ancient people through Linked Data collection of common information from many collaborating projects. The graph will provide: 1. identifiers for all persons who appear in one or more corpora and catalogues; 2. gold standard normalization data for parsing and proofing tools; 3. visualization of ancient persons, names, titles and relationships; 4. research tools for historians; 5. standards and software contributing to the Linked Ancient World Data community.

Seshat: Global History Databank

Seshat: Global History Databank is a large, international, multidisciplinary team of evolutionary scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, and other social scientists. Our team includes scholars from various backgrounds, policy makers, and enthusiastic volunteers. Seshat is governed by an editorial board, who oversee work done by postdoctoral researchers, collaborators and consultants, and research assistants all over the world.

For more, see here: http://seshatdatabank.info/

Egypt ISCED Mapping 1997

A very interesting maping of the Egyptian Educaional System compared to the international Standard Classification of Education (ISCED).

What is the role of the UIS?

UNESCO developed the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to facilitate comparisons of education statistics and indicators across countries on the basis of uniform and internationally agreed definitions. In 2011, a revision to ISCED was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States. The product of extensive international and regional consultations among education and statistical experts, ISCED 2011 takes into account significant changes in education systems worldwide since the last ISCED revision in 1997.- See more at: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/international-standard-classification-of-education.aspx#sthash.KmgImwyN.dpuf

Black Athena of Martin Bernal into Arabic

The controversial book of Martin Bernal, Blak Athena:The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, with its first two volumes published in 1987 and 1991, is turned into Arabic by Egyptian classicists. Both the Martin Bernal's response to his critic, Moore, David Chioni (editor). Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. (2001), nor the third volume which dealt with The Linguistic Evidence, published in 2006, have not yet been translated into Arabic.

The book was published by the NCT in 1997 (Vol. I) and Vol. II in two parts; part 1 in 2004 and part 2 in 2005. 

Virgil, Aeneid into Arabic

Arabic posses now two direct translations of Virgil, Aeneid from Latin :

1- Abdelmoty Sharaway et alli  have translated Virgil, Aeneid  for the first time ever directly into Arabic . The transitions appeared in 1971  (Books 1-6)  and 1977 (Books 7-12) in Egyptian General Organization for Composing und Publishing, Cairo (Egypt). In 2011 the National Center of Translation has issued a second edition of translation. 

2-Mahmoud A. Alghoul, a Palestinian translator, has single-handedly translated Virgil, Aeneid from Latin into Arabic. The translation is published last year 2015 in Kalima Translations, Abu Dhabi (UAE). If you would like to have a copy of this translation, order it from here (in Arabic) : https://books.tcaabudhabi.ae/ar/external/pages/bookdetail.aspx?key=14481

Aeschylus, Supplices and Persae into Arabic by by Ibrahim Sukkar

In 1966 Ibrahim Sukkar translated Aeschylus, Supplices and Persae into Arabic. The translation was published by Egyptian House for Writing and Translation, Cairo (Egypt).

The Arabic translation of Homer's Iliad is the second most sold book in Cairo IBF 2016

The offical page of the NCT in Cairo has announced that Homer's Iliad is the second most soldbook in Cairo International Book Fair From January 27, 2016 17:00 until February 10, 2016 19:00.

On the first place comes Masnavi of Rumi and the third Goethe's Faust.

New Classics Publications in Arabic

As I am now preparing a list of books to buy,  I would like to share these titles in this blog. I will not be able to provide more than an image or a short tittle of the book for the moment, but will surely add some information about it in the near future.

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Arabic Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms

The Greek medical tradition survived long after the decline of the Hellenistic world, thanks to the work of Arabic translators and commentators, who preserved the theoretical and practical discoveries of Greek physicians in Arabic translations. 

The translation of Greek medical texts into Arabic was mainly conducted under the ‘Abbasid caliphs and, in particular, in the circle of intellectuals linked to the name of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (circa 809–73). Among the Greek physicians, Hippocrates has always been considered an exemplary character, the symbol of the true and scrupulous physician, thanks mainly to the high regard for this founding figure shown in works by Galen and other physicians. 

The Aphorisms (sayings) of Hippocrates were widely commented upon in both the Greek and Islamic worlds. The present manuscript is a clear example of this tradition, as it consists of a fragmentary 14th-century copy of an 11th-century commentary on Hippocrates' Fuṣul(Sayings) by the Persian physician Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī. The Arabic translations of Hippocrates' aphorisms are underlined in red ink, while a remnant of the text preserves al-Nīsābūrī's commentary. 


An interesting ownership note in English, found in the opening folio of the manuscript, indicates that it was given as a present to the American surgeon Valentine Mott by Dr. Franz Pruner, who worked as the head physician of Cairo hospital after 1838. The title page records several previous owners from the 15th century to the 18th, and the manuscript may date back to the 14th century.

More about this interesting item, see here : https://lccn.loc.gov/2008427062

Helen of Troy into Arabic: First from French then from Greek.

Helen of Troy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1- La belle Hélène into Arabic:

Modern Arabic knew Helen of troy in 1868. Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801-1873) translated the french operetta La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen) just after its first performance in Paris on December 17, 1864 with a lap of exactly 4 years. The translation was published on 31.12.1868 by Boulaq Printing Press. 

In 2015 the translation was republished by the GEBO (General Egyptian Book Organization). See below the book cover. 

2- Helen's Euripides in Arabic 1984: 

Helen's Euripides, whose plot is different than the above-mentioned operetta, was translated into Arabic by Amin Salam in 1984, who is best known among Arabic classicists by his translations of "Who is who in Greek and Roman Mythology". 

Using Alpheios Editor (AE) in Perseids, I have aligned the first line of Salam's translation with its Greek original. See it here : http://sosol.perseids.org/alpheios/app/align-editsentence-perseids.xhtml?s=1&numSentences=1&doc=28472

3- Helen's Euripides into Arabic from Greek by Mounira Karawan:

Recently Mounira Karawn has translated Helen's Euripides into Arabic directly from Ancient Greek. The translation is published by the NTC [date?]. Below is the cover page of this translation.

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms


Professor Peter E. Pormann is currently pursuing a major research project entitled ‘Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms’, funded by the ERC (€1.5m). The project aims to examine the entire Arabic commentary tradition on the Aphorisms, from the ninth to the sixteenth century. The Hippocratic Aphorisms had a profound influence on subsequent generations; they not only shaped medical theory and practice, but also affected popular culture. Galen (d. c. 216) produced an extensive commentary on this text, as did other medical authors writing in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. The Arabic tradition is particularly rich, with more than a dozen commentaries extant in over a hundred manuscripts. These Arabic commentaries constituted important venues for innovation and change, and did not merely draw attention to scholastic debates. Moreover, they had a considerable impact on medical practice, as the Aphorisms were so popular that both doctor and patient knew them by heart.

More here: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/classicsancienthistory/research/projects/arabiccommentaries/ 

Marja Vierros, Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation

Marja Vierros presentation in  Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2014 Friday July 25th at 16:30 about the Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation, is available on the seminar's website. 

On the seminar's website (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-08mv.html) one can find a Video recording of seminar (MP4), Audio recording of seminar (MP3) and a the Presentation (PDF).

see also Sematia here (http://sematia.hum.helsinki.fi/signin).

An Interesting New Blog: The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of Autobiography

Charles Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Libraries,  has started a wonderful blog entitled "The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of Autobiography". The blog, according to its author's words, is "a component of a research project initiated by  Charles E. Jones, ... , who has a long standing interest in the history of the study of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, and of old world Antiquity more generally. This blog will present the working bibliography of the project, and provide a platform for comment and discussion of autobiographical writing by students and scholars of the ancient world."

Jones also hopes that he will also "develop a venue for the publication of new autobiographical essays in the form of an online open access periodical".

The idea behind the project and the blog is amazing. Except for Taha Hussein's autobiography " The Days", which is available now in English from AUC press (2001), I don't know how many autobiographies of Arabic scholars of Altertumswissenschaften do we have, but I hope the project and the blog will include them. I would also recommend adding his book "The Future of Culture in Egypt", translated into English by Sidney Glazer and published by American Council of Learned Societies, 1954, to the working bibliography of the project/blog.

To see the blog follow this link: http://antiqauto.blogspot.de/ 

DH LEIPZIG WORKSHOP WEEK 2015

A very busy week in Leipzig !

The Leipzig Workshop Week is comprised of a series of three related workshops in the week beginning 14th of December. In addition, the Sunoikisis DC Planning Seminar will run on the 16th and 17th.

For more information see the website here: http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/events/workshop-week-2015/ and see the full programme below.

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A new Arabic Book about Greek and Roman Mythology

I've come across a picture of the cover of a new Arabic book about Greek and Roman Mythology. The book is written by Dr. Joussif Khalil and titledقصص الأساطير اليونانية والرومانية  i.e. "Narratives of the Greek and Roman Mythology". Unfortunately, I was not able to have the content of this book. Whenever I do this I will post it here. Here is the book cover.

Index of open access Arabic Scientific periodicals

An Index of open access Arabic scientific periodical, called Directory of Free Arab Journals and abbreviated as DFAJ, is now available online (http://www.dfaj.net/).

PELLA: Coinage of the Kings of Macedonia

PELLA

PELLA is a project of the American Numismatic Society directed by Dr. Peter van Alfen. The web database, based on the Numishare platform, has been developed by Ethan Gruber.

Substantial work in developing PELLA has been carried out by Prof. Andrew Meadows (Oxford University). Cynthia Cheng, Yoorim Choi, Sylvia Czander, Clara Sanchez, and Elena Ferrero provided considerable assistance in organizing material within the ANS collection. Alan Roche is responsible for the photographs of ANS coins. At the British Museum, Martin Price, former Curator of Greek coins, was instrumental in cataloguing this material. Amelia Dowler is the British Museum's current curator of this series. Prof. Bernhard Weisser and Dr. Karsten Dahmen have done the same at the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Current contributors to the project are the ANS, the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the British Museum.

Translations have been provided by the following:
German: Karsten Dahmen
French: Frédérique Duyrat



PELLA: About PELLA