Back to Socrates: Publication as Dialogue

Charlotte Roueché

Köln

12 October 2017

J.-L. David, 1787

Humanists can be uncomfortable with the idea that their work is driven by technology,

rather than the other way round

Epigraphy sits between archaeology - the study of material culture - and

texts

Archaeologists have been

quick to adopt new

technologies

Textual scholars made One Great

Leap forward.

But, after several centuries, print is

becoming impossibly expensive.

For several centuries epigraphers focused almost exclusively on text – largely

from necessity.

Fair copies of texts at

Aphrodisiasby Robert ‘Palmyra’

WoodOctober

1750

Page from the

notebook of John

Deering, 1812

Text from Afghanistan, from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford

Their first big innovation was the squeeze

Epigrapher - Calder - at work, 12 June 1926

‘was able to make a first-rate squeeze’

Kubitschek’s notebook, 1893

Reichel’s notebook, 1893

Access>

Representation

Louis Robert (1904-1985)

William Calder at Zavak (Lystra) 1926

Photography was and is transforming our

discipline – and it is now being enabled by digital

tools.

The first uses of digital resources were textual

Online1997

EDR published online ?2003

Online2006

But to focus on the uptake of the computer, and digital

tools, is to jump over another, crucial, technology.

The typewriter was transformative

IBM Selectric typewriter, 1961

The implications were recognised, and the

possibilities harnessed, here, in Köln

1967

What a shock!

Varying typefaces!

1972

Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien I (1972)

We have come to take these revolutionary

undertakings for granted; but perhaps it is time for

the next revolution.

IRT was first published in 1953; this edition 2009

How could we invite and record comments

and emendations?

Think of all the citations there must be

in JStor

If I have an note accepted for ZPE it will be an

addition to my c.v. And will please my employer.

But the online edition will not be aware of it.

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