[B-Greek] Miami senior to create 'reader' textbooks in Gre ek and Latin

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Tue Mar 29 08:10:16 EDT 2011


>From the Classics list. I suspect a few of you will be interested in
this...the Lucian one has been mentioned before on this list. 

Enjoy! 
James

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Miami senior to create 'reader' textbooks in Greek and Latin

The books by Evan Hayes will be available online and in PDF format.

http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/miami-senior-to-create-reade
r-textbooks-in-greek-and-latin-1083927.html

Staff Report 10:40 AM Thursday, February 17, 2011

OXFORD - Miami University senior Evan Hayes, recipient of the $31,000
Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize, will spend a year after
graduation using his background in Latin, Greek and computer languages
to create a series of 12 "reader" textbooks for students of Greek and
Latin.

The books will be made available both freely online in PDF format and
through Amazon.com's print-on-demand subsidiary for a minimal charge,
Miami announced in a news release.

Hayes, a classics and philosophy double major and medieval studies
minor, has been exploring his interests in classical and digital
languages for much of his time at Miami with faculty mentor Stephen
Nimis, professor and chair of classics, the university announced in
the release.

"The proposed project comes out of research and work in which I have
been engaged at Miami for several years and is, in a way, its
culmination. I have been fortunate in that I have had the opportunity
to do a great deal of research during my time here, both
collaboratively and independently," Hayes said.

"As technology advances, we need to rethink the traditional model of
the individual scholar (someone locked up in a library for years
working on a single book) as the norm and look to more sustainable,
interdisciplinary, and collaborative projects," Hayes said. "I think
this is particularly true in the humanities, and that's what motivated
a lot of this project."

His work as an undergraduate will culminate in his series of reader's
texts. Each reader will consist of a Greek or Latin text; a series of
page-by-page definitions for rare words occurring in that section of
text, or "glosses;" a detailed page-by-page commentary on the text;
and a complete dictionary of words occurring in the text at the end.

Hayes and Nimis have already completed and published one reader, based
on the 1913 edition of Lucian's True History, a Greek satire from the
2nd century CE.


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