The Lab currently (2020-2024) supports the following research:
Michail Kitsos Adversus Iudaeos Dialogues at the dawn of the Fall of Constantinople. a) Transcription, Morphosyntactical Annotation, and New Edition of Georgius Scholarius (Gennadius), Confutatio Erroris Iudaici, b) Transcription, Morphosyntactical Annotation, and Editio Princeps of Matthaeus Blastares, Adversus Iudaeos libri V, and Theophanes Nicaenus metropolita, Homiliae adversus Iudaeos. Parisinus Graecus 1293 (ff. 1-55, 62-118, 119-240) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52504034r
The project uses Digital Humanities tools to produce a) a critical edition of the two as yet unedited and unpublished manuscripts of the Adversus Iudaeos dialogues that were written by Theophanes Metropolitan of Nicaea and Matthaeus Blastares, and b) a new critical edition of Georgius Scholarius’s (Gennadius) work. The project will also offer detailed analysis investigating the possible reasons these works were composed in the eve of the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) in the framework of enormous political changes.
Michail Kitsos is a Research Fellow at the Laboratory for the Management of Greek and Latin Digital Resources, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA/UoA). He holds a BA in Theology with a major in the Interpretation of the Old and the New Testament and Patristics and a MA in Biblical Archaeology from the School of Theology, Department of Theology NKUA. Kitsos also has a MA in Jewish Studies with a major in Rabbinic Judaism from Gratz College, Philadelphia, and he has a MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Michigan. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan specializing in the History of Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity. His research involves the comparative examination between Greek and Syriac anti-Jewish multivocal texts known as Adversus or Contra Iudaeos dialogues and Rabbinic multivocal narratives between rabbis and “others”, to examine the use and function of the image of the “other” by both Christians and Rabbis in dialogical literature within its historical context.
Enrico Simonetti A Commentary on Ovid's Heroides 14: Hypermestra Lynceo
The doctoral thesis consists of a philological and literary commentary, accompanied by a new edition and Italian translation, of Hypermestra's letter to Lynceus (Ovid's Heroides 14).
After completing a MA degree (cum laude) in Latin Literature at the University of Bari, Enrico Simonetti is currently a PhD candidate in Classical Philology at the University of Bari under the supervision of Prof. Dimundo. His research focuses on Petronius' Satyrica: he dealt particularly with the love affair between Circe and Polyaenos in Croton. He also works on Ovid's Heroides and Metamorphoses; his broader research interests involve the reception of the Ovidian poetry in Medieval and Modern works. He is the author of scientific papers. He took part in international conferences dealing with ancient literature and history. He contributes to a scientific magazine, the Invigilata Lucernis.
Anna Papadaki A conceptual Model for Medieval Latin Manuscripts
The research discusses the challenges associated with producing critical editions and conducting research on medieval Latin manuscripts, and suggests a detailed description of all the codicological, palaeographical, and structural-syntactic and semantic information collected from medieval Latin manuscripts through an ontology-based formality, the top-level Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). Due to the complexity of the above, the manuscripts of Isidore of Seville's work, specifically the first book of the Etymologies, were chosen as the main focus of this research. Indicative examples are the codes MS 022 from Corpus Christi College and Parisinus Latinus 7530.
Anna Papadaki is a PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Laboratory for the Management of Greek and Latin Digital Resources, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She holds a BA in Classics and a MA in Latin Literature. She is specializing in Ontology-based Palaeography.
