La lezione di Prometeo e il filologo nell’era digitale. Rassegna di risorse informatiche per lo studio dell’antichità classica

Abstract

This paper provides a brief overview of the IT resources available for classical studies, focusing on three different types of tools in particular: a) free cross-platform applications that handle Unicode effectively, making it is easy to type and edit polytonic Greek using a computer keyboard; b) free websites of general interest to classicists, which provide access to dictionaries, full text databases and compilations/analyses on specific subjects; c) digital collections of classical texts (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) that allow one to consult a vast corpus of Greek and Latin works and perform searches specifying combined search components.

Keywords

• classical antiquity
• Greek mythology
• full text database
• digital tools for historians
• Unicode encoding
• antichità classica
• mitologia greca
• banche dati testuali
• strumenti digitali per lo storico
• codifica Unicode