Catalog of Authors and Works

The Catalog of the Digital Suda project is populated with forms deriving from the linguistic extraction and annotation of expressions about names of authors and works in the Greek text of the Suda (ed. Adler).

This is the first version of the Catalog, which includes the entries of the first, second, and third volume of the Adler edition (praefatio, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, alphaiota, zeta, eta, iota, theta, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, omega, pi), is based on semi-automatic methods, and linked to external resources. Results are currently checked and analyzed for correction, further disambiguation, NE relation, and coreference resolution. Forthcoming versions of the catalog will allow to search Greek forms and will be enriched with data from other sources as part of the text-based Catalog of Authors and Works of the Linked Ancient Greek and Latin (LAGL) project.

Entries of this catalog are also searchable in the unified Catalog of Authors and Works of the Linked Ancient Greek and Latin (LAGL) project, which collects data from different ancient Greek sources.

The text of the Suda (ed. Adler) is available as part of the Digital Suda project and provided with a CTS URN retriever:

• Full Text (Suidae Lexicon, ed. Adler).
• CTS URN Retriever (Suidae Lexicon, ed. Adler).

Search Fields

• Author name: author name in the Latinized form according to the TLG Canon and the Perseus Catalog (e.g., Xenophon).
• Author CTS URN: author CTS URN according to the Perseus Catalog (e.g., urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032). Authors not yet in the TLG Canon and in the Perseus Catalog have been assigned new numbers with the prefix lagl instead of tlg (e.g., Arignote: urn:cts:greekLit:lagl0309).

Output Fields

• Author name: author name in the Latinized form with the corresponding Wikidata item identifier. Note that the LAGL author ID Wikidata Property (P12869) collects identifiers of Ancient Greek and Latin authors from the LAGL Catalog.
• Place of birth: place or places provided by Wikidata in the place of birth statement (property P19) for the corresponding author with Pleiades URIs.
• Place of death: place or places provided by Wikidata in the place of death statement (property P20) for the corresponding author with Pleiades URIs.
• Occupation: value or values provided by Wikidata in the occupation statement (property P106) for the corresponding author.
• Works: list of works of the searched author with CTS URNs and corresponding Wikidata item identifiers (if available). The text of the Suda includes also citations of authors without references to their works.
• Passages: list of the relevant passages of the Suda in ancient Greek with annotations of forms corresponding to author names and work titles. By hovering the mouse over the annotations it is possible to visualize author names and work titles with corresponding forms in Latin and CTS URNs. Red annotations: forms corresponding to the searched author; Orange annotations: forms corresponding to the works of the searched author; Blue annotations: forms corresponding to other authors in the resulting passage; Green annotations: forms corresponding to works of other authors in the resulting passage. The + symbol highlights (1) forms corresponding to author names in work titles and (2) works attributed to two or more authors.