The Palatine Anthology project: an API allowing new interactions with the Greek epigrams

Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Elsa Bouchard, Enrico Agostini Marchese, Joana Casenave, Arthur Juchereau, Servanne Monjor, Nicolas Sauret

Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les écritures numériques

What is the Anthology?

  • The Codex Palatinus 23? (Anthologia Palatina)
  • The Greek Anthology? (Anthologia Graeca)

Unity?

  • More than 100 authorss
  • 16 centuries
  • A predominant meter (elegiac couplet)
    • Epigrams
    • Inscriptions... or not
    • Στέφανος - anthology

A collective imaginary

  • Anthology structure
  • Distributed topoï (Carpe diem example)
  • Littérature Brouhaha (Lionel Ruffel)
  • Popular culture

    Editorialization

  • Collective and open dynamics
  • Amateurs or specialists
  • Open environment