1. Andreas divus iustinopolitanus and A parallel corpus of greek and latin texts
Petra Šoštarić
Department of Classical Philology
University of Zagreb

2. Andreas divus iustinopolitanus
Koper, Slovenia = Iustinopolis
Renaissance intellectual circle
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger
the age of rediscovery of Greek letters
translations of Homer, Aristophanes,
Theocritus
Homer: epic, archaic period
Aristophanes: comedy, classical period
Theocritus: bucolic, Hellenistic period
…but did he really exist?

5. Divus’ translationese latin
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν: πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω,
Virum mihi dic Musa multiscium, qui
valde multum
Erravit, ex quo Troiae sacram urbem depopulatus est:
Multorum autem virorum vidit urbes, et mentem cognovit;

6. One humanist, Two projects
The GHLH project
The LaPHoTe project
University of Zagreb
4x1 year
Neven Jovanović
Students, pupils, teaching staff
Greek to Croatian: Homer, Herodotus
Latin to Croatian: Livy, Cicero
Greek to Latin: Andreas Divus
Bilateral collaboration (Croatia - Slovenia)
2 years
Neven Jovanović, Gregor Pobežin
Researchers from different institutions
Andreas Divus: Homer, Theocritus
Rajmund Kunić: the Iliad, Theocritus
Bernard Zamanja: the Odyssey, Theocritus

7. Students’ assignments
Transcription of the Latin text
Text alignment using Alpheios and Perseids: aligning the original text with the translation
Alpheios: a digital tool for language study
Perseids: a collaborative platform developed by the Perseus Project

10. Possible uses of (building) the corpus
teaching Latin or Greek to beginners
enhancing the students’ vocabulary skills
non-traditional examination
building a dictionary

11. Thank you!