La Ciropedia di Senofonte: leggibile, stampabile, ben connessa.

Ciao a tutti,

un lavoretto semplice semplice: sul sito del progetto Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) ci sono disponibili testi classici assieme ad un sacco di strumenti per analizzarli.

From the site: what is the Perseus Digital Library?

The Perseus Digital Library, founded as and still often known as the Perseus Project, is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. It is funded to perform research on developing tools to provide users with improved access to various types of materials. Past work has focused on building and linking together collections. Current work considers ways of developing and refining tools for presentation of the materials in the Perseus DL. … (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/help/faq)

Perseus was named for the mythological Greek hero who explored the limits of the world known to him. The name reflects the origins as a project focused on the student of Ancient Greece. Since the founding, the project has, like the hero, moved beyond our initial sphere into many areas of the Digital Humanities. The core of the collections and research remains pre-modern studies and languages.

Cosa si può aggiungere, oltre a tutti i ringraziamenti del caso? A seconda di cosa si è in grado. Nel pdf scaricabile da qui, ad esempio, c’è il primo libro della Ciropedia di Senofonte; testo in solo greco, pensato per la comodità di lettura e per iniziare una qualche analisi: quindi si dovrebbe poter:

• leggerlo comodamente a schermo (sia PC che su tablet/smartphone);
• stamparlo con semplicità (in fondo è un file pdf);
• annotare la stampa come si preferisce (il testo è a interlinea doppia e i margini laterali sono ben dimensionati);
• dal pdf, i titoli – a livello di capitolo – sono collegati direttamente alla relativa pagina sul sito Perseus: questo dovrebbe risultare comodo per sfruttare tutto quanto il sito mette a disposizione.

Il lavoretto è pensato principalmente per imparare a leggere (prima ancora di pensare a tradurre) il greco antico, dedicato quindi a tutti i prossimi neoginnasiali.

Ah giusto, due parole sulla Ciropedia di Senofonte…

(parte un copia-e-incolla senza vergogna da https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciropedia)

L’opera, in 8 libri, fu scritta probabilmente dopo il ritorno di Senofonte ad Atene (365 a.C.) o dopo la rivolta dei satrapi (360 a.C.). Il titolo, Κύρου παιδεία, «L’educazione di Ciro», fornisce già una chiara idea del contenuto dell’opera: si tratta, infatti, del racconto dell’educazione del re, seguita in tutte le fasi (fanciullezza, efebia, maturità, vecchiaia). Il padre di Ciro, Cambise, insegna al figlio come procurarsi l’obbedienza spontanea dell’esercito, come gestire l’economia, la salute, il comando nel corso delle spedizioni.

(fine del copia-e-incolla, grazie Wikipedia)

Buona lettura, nel caso.

 

Pubblicità

Greeks leaders during the Persian Wars: bios from Cornelius Nepos (in Latin)

Hi all,

just re-edited from an old textbook, a student edition of

DE EXCELLENTISSIBUS DUCIBUS EXTERARUM GENTIUM by CORNELIUS NEPOS. (Vol. I and II).

Edited with Introduction Notes, and Vocabulary, by Herbert Wilkinson, M.A. Formerly Postmaster of Merton College, Oxford

 

First Edition 1898.
Re-issue, with illustrations, 1902,
Reprinted 1902, 1907.

The first five lives, those of the chief Greeks who took part in the Persian Wars.

• MILTIADES
• THEMISTOCLES
• ARISTIDES
• PAUSANIAS
• CIMON

 

From the preface:

This is the first volume of a complete edition of the lives of Cornelius Nepos. The Notes are intended for the use of beginners; and in the Vocabulary an attempt has been made to give fuller information as to the various meanings of important words than is generally found in similar works. The Text is mainly Halm’s, with a few readings from other sources.

And from the Historical Introduction

I. THE PERSIAN WARS.

The first five lives in this volume are those of the chief Greeks who took part in the Persian Wars. The origin of these wars is to be found in the position of the Greek colonies on the coast of Asia Minor, and especially of those which had been founded by Ionians, that branch of the Greek race to which the Athenians belonged.

These were situated on the coast of Lydia, and had originally been independent of the Asiatic kings near them. About the year B.C. 560, Croesus, King of Lydia, had established a lordship over them, but he left them in peace, provided that they acknowledged his sovereignty and paid a small tribute. We learn from Herodotus that Croesus was an admirer of Greek civilisation and consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. But when Cyrus, King of Persia, overthrew Croesus he refused to leave the Ionians to themselves. They fought for freedom and were conquered, after applying in vain for help to Sparta.

(continue)

The pdf is available clicking here (or typing http://bit.ly/2KvRich) .

Sources of the book are freely available on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/corneliusnepos01wilkgoog

https://archive.org/details/corneliusnepos00wilkgoog

 

Nepos’ latin is quite simple, have a nice reading; don’t forget to contact me freely at gp (dot) ciceri (at) gmail (dot) com for corrections and suggestions.

/gp