Gaspar Stiblinus's edition of Euripides (1562)
Donald J. Mastronarde, Professor
Classics
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Gaspar Stiblinus, a scholar working in Switzerland, produced a massive edition of the surviving plays of Euripides in Basel in 1562. His work is of interest because he is the first modern scholar to provide summaries and analyses of the plays. His edition is very rare (although now images of the whole have been made available on the web). This project aims to extract the Latin prefaces and annotation of Stiblinus for publication on the web. In addition, English translations will be added for all these Latin extracts, to make them accessible to a wider audience.
Role: The desired parts of the edition have at this point all been transcribed and made available on the web. In addition, previous URAP participants have translated some of the material into English, which you can see on the site. The prefaces and arguments of several plays still remain to be translated. An RA with very good Latin skills is needed, someone who will be able to create draft translations to be corrected by me and then posted to the web beside the Latin. The work may be carried out on the student's own computer in any location.
Qualifications: Stiblinus writes in a sophisticated prose style with some Ciceronian features. The RA should know Latin at an advanced level (preferably, the RA will have taken at least one senior course in Latin prose, but a student who has been highly successful in advancing through the Latin sequence for four or five semesters may also be able to take on this challenge).
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Arts & Humanities