Info Of The Vergil Project

[First posted inwards spataculartreasures 10 August 2012, updated 28 Dec 2019]

The Vergil project: Resources for Students, Teachers, together with Readers of Vergil

 

The Vergil Project is a resources for students, teachers, together with readers of Vergil's Aeneid. It offers an on-line hypertext linked to interpretive materials of diverse kinds. These include basic data virtually grammar, syntax, together with diction; several commentaries; an apparatus criticus; aid amongst scansion; together with other resources.

The text

The display text that appears on the left side of the hide is that of the one-time OCT past times Hirtzel (1900), amongst modifications. Each give-and-take is linked to a multifariousness of resources that tin flame hold upward selected from the sidebar. The text initially displayed is e'er the initiative of all twenty-five lines of the poem. The user tin flame together with hence navigate to around other mass together with business expose past times using the 2 slider bars that seem at the transcend of the screen, inwards a higher house the text together with resources.

The sidebar

The correct side of the hide contains a sidebar that is divided into 4 sections. By default each of these sections is visible, but each tin flame hold upward hidden or reopened at the user's discretion past times clicking on the icon ( or ) inwards the transcend left corner of each box.

1. The Options department allows the user to customize the display. Choices include:
   • Displaythe text inwards units of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1,000 lines.
   • Select from amid the dissimilar kinds of resources. As a whole, these are available inwards 3 forms:
     • In-line textual aids are included inside the text of the poetry form together with are displayed inwards i of 3 ways:
       1. Modern punctuation is merely inserted into the primary text.
       2. Textual variantsappear equally asterisks side past times side to whatever give-and-take for which a variant reading (whether attested or conjectural) exists. Each dissimilar reading appears equally a separate asterisk. Passing the cursor over these asterisks displays the alternate reading along amongst the sources that attest or endorse it.
       3. Natural vowel quantities replaces the master text amongst i that marks long together with curt vowel quantities. The private words rest linked to other resources.
     • Mouse hover textual aid appears when the cursor is rolled over a item give-and-take inwards the text
     • Sidebar resources are available inwards several areas that are arranged to the correct of the text.
     Some resources are available inwards to a greater extent than than i of these forms hence that users tin flame consult them inwards the shape that they notice most convenient. Resources that involve displaying large amounts of text are by together with large available exclusively equally sidebar resources.
2. The Reading assistance section contains basic data virtually grammar, syntax, together with diction inwards the shape of an justice English linguistic communication equivalent for each give-and-take inwards context.
3. The Concordance department lists every other occurrence of the same give-and-take inwards the poem, including all grammatical forms.
4. The Resources for selected text gives access to several commentaries together with translations of the Aeneid and to a total listing of textual variants. < /li>

Release notes

Version 2.0

This is the initiative of all major upgrade to The Vergil Project since its master release. The most obvious characteristic of this unloose is the redesign of the user interface. New content features include additional analysis of gramamr together with syntax, textual variants, natural vowel quantities, a to a greater extent than consummate concordance function, the Servius commentary, together with the translations of John Dryden (1697, a classic together with somewhat gratis poetic rendering) together with Theodore C. Williams (1910, likewise poetic but inwards a to a greater extent than modern idiom). These texts were digitized past times The Perseus Digital Library. The textual variants listed hither are based on the apparatus critici of the editions of R. A. B. Mynors' (the electrical flow OCT, 1969) together with Mario Geymonat (Corpus Paravianum 1973). The novel grammatical analysis is based on that of M. N. Wetmore's Index Verborum Vergilianus (1911), against which the older analysis has been checked.

Collaborators

• Mary Costigan, Senior Director, SAS Computing, University of Pennsylvania - technical consulting together with projection coordination
• Seth Fromer, A.B. '09, University of Pennsylvania - digitization of texts
• Charles Ham, Classical Studies Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania - digitization of texts
• Jay Treat, Educational Technology Services, SAS Computing, University of Pennsylvania - technical consulting
• J. Reuben Wetherbee, SAS Computing, IRAD, University of Pennsylvania - programming together with redesign of site

Version 1.0

After around initial experimentation together with proof of concept outset inwards 1995, The Vergil Project was created past times a grouping of secondary school, college, together with academy teachers together with graduate students inwards a yoke of sumer workshops held at the University of Pennsylvania inwards 1999 together with 2000. During that fourth dimension the text of Aeneid 1, 2, 4, 6, together with other of the most usually studied parts of the poetry form were analyzed grammaticaly together with syntactically. In addition, these parts of the poetry form were provided amongst a basic glossary together with amongst the elements of an master commentary together with other resources.