Laboratory of Classics
General information:
The Classical Philology Laboratory was founded on the basis of P.D. 331 (Official Government Gazette 279/19.11.2002). It is supervised by the Director, who is elected by all faculty members of the Department of Philology and whose tenure in office is three years. In the absence of permanent laboratory staff, the Laboratory is attended by the respective Director and the postgraduate students of the Division of Classics. It does not have its own technical and secretarial support, but is operated by the technical staff member of the Department.
Contact number: +30 26510 05215
Brief description of the Laboratory:
The Classical Philology Laboratory has a satisfactory infrastructure and its objectives include the support of teaching and exams within the Division of Classics, the research and teaching facilitation of postgraduate students, and especially the scientific support of undergraduate students in the fields of a) Ancient Greek Philology, and all individual subject areas; b) Latin Philology, and all individual subject areas; c) the related accredited specializations, and all individual subject areas.
The Laboratory possesses a number of laptop and desktop computers with internet connection, colour printers, a modern equipment for reading and printing manuscript microfilms, a modern converter of microfilms to a digital form; an attractive collection of over a hundred microfilms of Greek and Latin manuscripts (mostly of the 9th , 10th and 11th centuries): Homer, Hesiod, dramatic poets (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes), historians (Thucydides, Xenophon), philosophers (Plato, Aristotle), orators (Demosthenes, Isocrates, Lucian, Aelius Aristides, Philostratus), Cicero, Virgil etc.; and a basic library.
The Laboratory offers its infrastructure to all researchers. More specifically, it is at the disposal of faculty members, and of undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Division of Classics, who conduct undergraduate essays, postgraduate and doctoral theses.
Activities of the Laboratory:
The Laboratory’s scope of work includes the tutoring and support classes in Ancient Greek and Latin Language which are taught by postgraduates to undergraduate students.
The laboratory is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students certain days and hours per week (use of electronic databases; search for printed and electronic bibliography; practice in reading and editing manuscripts or papyri, etc.). Among the objectives of the Laboratories is the digitization of all microfilmed manuscripts, so that they are available to every researcher.
In addition, the Laboratory plans the (re)publication, translation and annotation of papyri, as well as the publication of annotated translations of ancient Greek and Latin texts. Also, it supports the organization of symposia, conferences, and seminars organized by faculty members of the Department or by invited professors and researchers at home and abroad.
Publications of the Laboratory:
- Ancient Greek Language and Texts, volume I (ed. D. Raios), Ioannina 2013.
- Ancient Greek Language and Texts, volume II (ed. D. Raios), Ioannina 2013.
- Latin Language and Texts (ed. H. Chouliara-Raiou, in preparation).