An ongoing retranslation of the Greek text of Pausanias, with ongoing annotations, primarily by Gregory Nagy from 2014 to 2022, and continued since 2022 by Nagy together with an intergenerational team.
Introductory Remarks by Gregory Nagy 2022
I restart what I had described as an ongoing project in a posting for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2020.08.07): https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/ongoing-comments-on-a-pausanias-reader-in-progress/. My description there, in the introduction to that post, is by now out of date. My description here presents a new idea about the ongoing project as I had described it there. Having found for it a new home in Classical Continuum, I have merged a restarted version of A Pausanias Commentary in Progress, which I had abbreviated as APCIP, with a restarted version of A Pausanias Reader in Progress, abbreviated as APRIP. In the new Reader, my ongoing commentary, in the form of annotations, has been combined with my long-term ongoing project of retranslating all ten scrolls of the Greek text of Pausanias wherever I think that updating is needed for the original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 translated by Jones together with H. A. Ormerod). Starting in 2022, my annotations will be enhanced by other contributors of content. In the case of each new contribution, including mine, the contributor’s name and the date of writing will be indicated.
Funding
This project was generously funded by a grant from the Dean's Fund for Promising Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Special Thanks
We would especially like to thank Professor Claudine Gay, who as the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences first recognized the potential of this project.
We would also like to thank Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Brady Kiesling, and the rest of the Digital Periegesis team for allowing us to use their data for tagged persons and places. Their project, “Time and People in Pausanias’s Description of Greece” was funded in part by a Swedish research council grant (Vetenskapsrådet project no: 2021-02799).
Additionally, we would like to thank Chiara Palladino and Tariq Yousef for their support using their named entity classification model. Named entity classification was performed using the UGARIT/flair_grc_bert_ner model published on HuggingFace.
Special thanks are also due to Leonard Muellner and Noel Spencer, ποιμένες ἔργων.
Credits
Based on an original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H. A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes added by Jones.
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