Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria

Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria

A translation of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus.

Work in progress by Peter van Minnen

[Retrieved from original website on 17-3-2018]

Original documents from Ancient Alexandria! Wish it were true? It is true.

On this web site we at UC present a work in progress: a translation with introduction and notes of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus. There are hundreds such documents – even thousands. Just imagine a stack of such texts from ancient Rome or Athens – the whole world would be all over it! A similar project was undertaken for the documents found on the island of Elephantine in southernmost Egypt (B. Porten ed., The Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996), so why not for Alexandria on the other, Mediterranean, end?

Recent archaeological work in Alexandria and its harbor have created a lot of interest among those who cannot be expected to know about, let alone read, original Greek documents. They will want to bookmark this page.


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The DCC Greek List is now available in Arabic

The Dickinson College Commentaries (DCC)

According to Wikipedia, the DCC is  a digital project of Dickinson College, which is located in Carlisle, near Harrisburg, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of Classical Studies, see also here for the entry in the Digital Classics Wiki.

The DCC  Greek vocabualry list of this porject is now available in Arabic translation where one can both search and browse it, see it here: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ar/greek-core-list-arabic. According to the project director, Christopher Francese , "This list contains about 500 of the most common words in ancient Greek. These are the lemmas or dictionary headwords that generate approximately 65% of the word forms in a typical Greek text." To know more details about this valuable learning resource see the project's website here:http://dcc.dickinson.edu/. They have also a Facebook page and a Twitter account.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

[Retrieved from the website of IEP on 2018, January 1]

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present, the IEP has over a million visitors per month, and about 20 million page views per year. The Encyclopedia is free of charge and available to all users of the Internet world-wide. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at universities around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries.