Changing the Center of Gravity

This collection of essays represents the wide perspective of current research being undertaken in Digital Classics. Classics has always been at the forefront of the use of computing in Humanities research. We are now beginning to see new intellectual practices and a new cyberinfrastructure emerging which go beyond relatively superficial technological methods which evolved alongside print technologies. These innovative research environments allow Classical scholars to access, create, manipulate, interrogate, analyse, and utilise disparate digital sources in their complex research tasks.

The essays in this volume reflect a new generation of classicists hunting for new methods to understand and to disseminate ancient texts, both to increase the body of published information about classical Greek and Latin and also to encourage these languages to play an increased role in the intellectual life of humanity. In discussing areas as diverse as teaching, citation, criticism, collaboration, epigraphy, geography, grammar, lexicography, and digitization, this volume demonstrates the new scope and potential in Digital Classics research.

These essays emerged from a workshop on October 5th 2007 on the subject of Cyberinfrastructure in the Classics, funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted by the University of Kentucky. They serve as a festschrift to Allen Ross Scaife, Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities (stoa.org), who did more than any one person to advance the field of classics in the decade that carried us from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.