I am a Classicist and I work in Italy and in the US. I am Research Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Roma Tor Vergata and Lecturer in Classics at Tufts University. I have a PhD in ancient history and my research interests are mainly focused on ancient Greece and the digital humanities (see my CV and my publications).
I am currently working on three main projects:
1) Fragmentary Texts, with two goals:
- Producing critical editions of Greek fragmentary historians: in 2009 I published the first volume of the fragments of Istrus the Callimachean for the Italian series “I Frammenti degli Storici Greci” and I am going to publish the fragments of Lucius Cincius Alimentus for the same series; I have also been assigned the fragments of Hellanicus of Lesbos for the Brill’s New Jacoby project;
- Exploring methods and tools for representing fragments of ancient texts in digital libraries of Classical sources (see Fragmentary Texts and demo.fragmentarytexts.org). Support from the NEH/JISC PhiloGrid Project (Creating a Virtual Research Environment for Classics: NEH PX-50013-08) and from the Mellon Cybereditions Project allowed me to spend six months developing this work at the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
2) The Ancient Library of Alexandria: This is a project that aims at collecting ancient and modern sources on the library of Alexandria. This is part of my interests in the history of the reception and transmission of Classical texts across the centuries. On this topic I have co-authored a volume entitled La Biblioteca di Alessandria. Storia di un paradiso perduto. Tivoli (Roma): Ed. Tored 2010).
3) Biblioteca Digitale delle Iscrizioni del Latium Vetus: This is a project of the University of Roma Tor Vergata and its aim is to build a digital repository of all Greek and Latin inscriptions from the ancient region called Latium Vetus. Part of this project is the collaboration with Tufts University, where I have taught a course on Latin Epigraphy in the Fall 2009. In June 2011 Tufts students participated in an intensive summer course at Tor Vergata on the inscriptions on Latium Vetus: The Stones of Ancient Latium – Inscriptions, Archaeological Remains, and the Geographic Contexts of Latium Vetus.
The aim of this blog is to present and discuss topics and news about the application of digital technologies to the study of the ancient world. Comments, suggestions, and feedbacks are more than welcome.
Twitter: @Monica_Berti
