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Classical Studies 2012 Contents Highlights Classical Studies 2012 www.cambridge.org/classics Contents Highlights Classical studies (general)the archimedes palimpsest publications1 the archimedes palimpsest publications The and wilson tchernetska, netz, noel, reViel NetZ is Professor of classics and Professor of Philos- the Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine coNteNts ophy, by courtesy, at stanford university. his books from cambridge Classical languages 4 VANDENHOUT university Press include The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Math- prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, introduction: the Archimedes Palimpsest Project Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the ematics: A Study in Cognitive History (1999, runciman Award), The Archimedes william noel including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second PArt 1 the mANuscriPts to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. sold at THE Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009). he is also the author of a multi-volume millennium BC. This exciting and accessible new introductory course, euchologion translation of and commentary on the works of Archimedes, also auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded Archimedes: treatises (codex c) with cambridge, the first volume of which, The Two Books On the PwhichA canlim be used in both trimesterP sestand semester systems, offers in hyperides: speeches Classical literatureSphere and the Cylinder, was published in 2004. his popular book project to conserve, image, and transcribe its texts. in6 this volume commentary on Aristotle’s Categories OF on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, The Archimedes Codex (co- ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite hagiographical text Elements Hittite authored with William Noel, Neumann Prize), was published in 2007 the scientists, conservators, classicists, and historians involved in the Volume I: Catalogue and Commentary The Archimedes P Volume i menaion and has been translated into twenty languages. language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. unknown text y project discuss in full their techniques and their discoveries. these unknown text Z WilliAm Noel is curator of manuscripts and rare Books at the cAIt tincludesAlogue a separate ANsectiond of c paradigms,omme andN a tgrammaticalAry index as THEOVANDENHOUT Walters Art museum, and director of the Archimedes Palimpsest include new speeches by the classical Athenian orator hyperides, a PArt 2 history BLK well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary Project. his popular book, The Archimedes Codex (co-authored with THE lost commentary on Aristotle’s Categories from the second or third Y 1 the making of the euchologion Ancient historyreviel Netz, Neumann Prize), was published in 2007 and has been 11 can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the abigail quandt translated into twenty languages. he is a member of the faculty of century ad, and substantial re-readings and reinterpretations of M the rare Book school, university of Virginia, and is Adjunct Profes- cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so 2 the strange and eventful history of the Archimedes Palimpsest Elements sor at Johns hopkins university. dr Noel received his Ph.d. from works by Archimedes. the book discusses the pioneering imaging C john lowden cambridge university in 1993 and has published widely on european and post-processing techniques used to reveal the texts, and desired. The introduction provides the necessary cultural and historical 3 Itinera Archimedea: on heiberg in constantinople and manuscript illumination from 800 to 1300, and on the Archimedes Archimedes in copenhagen Palimpsest. includes detailed codicological descriptions of all eight manu- background, with suggestions for further reading, and explains the erik petersen Classical art,NAtAlie tcherNetsk architectureA is a leading manuscript scholar 18 principles of the cuneiform writing system. scripts that constitute the Palimpsest. it will be of interest to PPC Hittite PArt 3 coNserVAtioN specializing in greek palimpsests. educated in riga, st. Petersburg, and geneva, she conducted research in rome and hamburg and manuscript scholars, conservators, classicists, and OF 4 conserving the Archimedes Palimpsest completed her Ph.d. in cambridge. in the late 1990s, she was one of THEO VAN DEN HOUT is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian abigail quandt the first manuscript scholars worldwide to venture into the field historians of science. PArt 4 the digitAl PAlimPsest of digital imaging. in 2002, it was she who discovered and identified Languages at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and A fragments of two speeches of hyperides from the Archimedes Elements 5 imaging and image-Processing techniques Palimpsest, the discovery that radically changed our view of the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) since 2000. william a. christens-barry,OF roger l. easton, jr., lim Ancient philosophy 21 THE and keith t. knox survival of hyperides in Byzantium. Besides his work on the dictionary, his current personal interests focus 6 imaging with X-ray Fluorescence Nigel WilsoN is a fellow of the British Academy and Fellow and Hittite uwe bergmann tutor (emeritus) at lincoln college, oxford. he has had long experi- on ancient record management and literacy in Hittite society. P ence of research on greek manuscripts and editing texts. his works 7 the Palimpsest data set include Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and ses He has over twenty years of experience teaching Hittite and other doug emery, alex lee, and michael b. toth Latin Literature (3rd ed. 1991, with l. d. reynolds) and Scholars of Anatolian languages at the universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. Byzantium (1996). PArt 5 the teXts Byzantine studies 25 T 8 the Palimpsest in context natalie tchernetska and nigel wilson COVER DESIGN: JACKIE TAYLOR VAN DEN HOUT: Cover illustration: Hittite fragment edited by 9 the Place of codex c in Archimedes scholarship (807/z) of a festival text with part of reviel netz reviel Netz, William Noel, the colophon and the name of the Appendix: concordance of Foliations scribe Anuwanza (photo provided by Bibliography Also of interestjacket illustration: the Archimedes Palimpsest, fol. 102r–98v. 25 Natalie tchernetska, and Nigel Wilson the author, courtesy of the Museum ofindex copyright: the owner of the Archimedes Palimpsest. licensed for use under Walters creative commons Attribution 3.0 unported Access rights. 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