User:Wareh
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[edit] Some of my Contributions
- Created articles (length in bytes): Bibliotheca Teubneriana (7,406), Valentin Rose (classicist) (1,058)
- Created articles (mainly from public domain sources): Callistratus (grammarian), Callistratus (sophist), Callistratus (jurist)
- Created disambiguation pages: Valentin Rose, Sophonias, Callistratus, Hermias (disambiguation)
Improved articles (in alphabetical order)
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- Aeneid: translations, bibliography (diff); external link cleanup (diff); relation between the poem's two halves and the two Homeric poems (diff)
- Aramaic primacy: Wrote a clearer and more accurate account of what Papias says (diff) than what I found at Bible (where it less belonged); added mainstream scholarly view (diff)
- Aristotle: Fixed the "Athenians sinning twice against philosophy" quote and dug up the reference in the Vita Marciana (diff); added Bekker references to the quotes in Meteorology (Aristotle) (diff); improved Constitution of the Athenians (diff) and F. G. Kenyon (diff); completed and corrected the Bekker numbers article, adding image of a sample page (diff)
- Neapolitan flip coffee pot: Improvements (diff; much still to be done in coffeemakers and brewing methods)
- On Translating Homer: Homer's four essential qualities (diff)
- Pangram: Pangrams occurring naturally in ancient Greek literature (diff)
- Pindar: Chronology of Pindar's odes (diff); correct figures for books in each genre (diff)
- Protagoras: Attempt towards a more accurate account (diff)
- Sappho: Apocryphal status of Christian book-burning stories; echo of Sappho fr. 2 in Gregory of Nazianzus' On Human Nature (diff); warning on unreliability of biographical readings and traditions (diff); critically reworked another editor's contribution (diff); external link cleanup (diff)
- Larry Shaw (politician): updates (diff) (diff)
- Stephanus pagination: Added the image of a sample page (diff)
- William James Stillman: Expansion to address Stillman's photography, which was not mentioned (diff)
- Thucydides: References (diff)
- Essentially bibliographical enhancements to: Aretaeus of Cappadocia (diff), Hippocrates (diff), Sextus Propertius (list of Latin editions: diff), Cassius Dionysius Longinus (diff), On Generation and Corruption (diff), Plotinus (diff), Ibn Tufail (diff)
- Minor amplifications to fledging articles: Crux (literary) (diff), Derrick Shareef (diff)
- Misc.: Dithyramb (Bacchylides reference); Naphtha (use in Greek fire); Walter Bagehot ("cake of custom" and comparison to H.J.S. Maine); Acheloos River (Herodotus quotation); Divine Comedy and Kitab al Miraj (corr. translation dates for Liber Scale Machometi); Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture (American adaptation by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders); references for Themistius ὁ εὐφραδής (diff); George Eliot (toned down the criticism of Romola: diff); Iliad translations (diff); Gospel of Luke (relation to other gospels: diff); Godhead (Christianity) (usage in Pseudo-Dionysius: diff); Gore Vidal (improvements to article structure: diff)
- Called for the deletion of: Gregory Cowan, Collapsible, St Cormac
[edit] Image Contributions
Students and scholars use Stephanus pagination and Bekker numbers, usually without ever looking at the page layouts that established these standards of reference. Now these are even used online sans printed book, but Wikipedia makes it possible to follow a couple of clicks and see a page from Estienne's 1578 edition of Plato. "Oh, of course, now I see what the a b c d e mean."
Wikipedia can, more generally, give online information about the traditional offline scholarship that continues to make knowledge possible in many fields. Wiki includes lots of 1911 Britannica articles that refer to "the Teubner series" as if any educated person should know what that means (I found many of these references mistakenly formatted, because the Wiki editors did not). So I made a Bibliotheca Teubneriana article that adds some colorful reality to all this talk of Greek and Latin editions. I believe that a necessary application of fair use in Wikipedia is to make important books visible and familiar in this way.
 Volume 1, Page 142 of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing the opening of Theaetetus |
 Page 184 of the first volume of Bekker's edition, published in 1831, showing the end of Sophistical Refutations and the beginning of Physics |
 The covers of Bibliotheca Teubneriana Greek texts through the years: Philodemi De ira liber, ed. C. Wilke (Leipzig, 1914); Bacchylidis carmina cum fragmentis, post B. Snell ed. H. Maehler (Leipzig, 1970); Poetae epici graeci, Pars II, Fasc. 1, ed. A. Bernabé (Munich, 2004) |
 Examples of the original Teubner Greek type, in its older (left: Aeschines, ed. F. Blass, Leipzig, 1895) and newer (Pindari carmina cum fragmentis, post B. Snell ed. H. Maehler, Leipzig, 1969) forms |
 Example of the upright variant of the original Teubner Greek type: Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquiae, ed. E. Habrich, Leipzig, 1960 |
 Examples of more recent variants of the original Teubner Greek type, both italic (top: Euripides, Electra, ed. G. Basta Donzelli, Stuttgart 1995) and upright (center: Aeschyli tragoediae, ed. M.L. West, Stuttgart, 1990; bottom: Poetae epici graeci, Pars II, Fasc. 1, ed. A. Bernabé, Munich, 2004) |
 Teubner Greek type based on Griechische Antiqua (top: Philodemi De ira liber, ed. C. Wilke, Leipzig, 1914; center: Homeri Odyssea, ed. P. Von der Muehll, Stuttgart, 1962), with a more recent digital descendant (bottom: Homeri Ilias, rec. M.L. West, volumen alterum, Munich, 2000) |
