Sharing Ancient Wisdoms
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“The aim of the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) project is to use new technology to present and analyse the tradition of wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout antiquity and the middle ages collections of wise or useful sayings were created and circulated, as a practical response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts in a manuscript age; our project will focus on those which collected moral and social advice, and philosophical ideas.
(…) The aim is to publish several collections online, using technology to express and display their relationships – with the ancient texts on which they drew, with later texts which drew on them, and also with one another, since collections were frequently translated. ”
Source : King’s College, London
Le projet Sharing Ancient Wisdoms a été financé par HERA (Humanities in the European Reasearch Area), partenariat entre 21 conseils de recherche sur les Humanités à travers l’Europe et l’ESF (European Science Foundation). Il a été conduit à partir de 2009 par une équipe de chercheurs de Londres (King’s College), Upsala (The Newman Institute) et Vienne (University of Vienna).
Aujourd’hui le site du projet propose en ligne 5 collections de textes :
- Gnomological Material in Arabic and in Arabic-Spanish transmission. Texts established by Ines Dallaji, Lorenz Nigst, Christoph Storz, Elvira Wakelnig. ISBN 978-1-897747-27-8
- Arabic Philosophical Compendia and Excerpts of Arabic and Latin Philosophical Texts. Texts established by Christoph Storz and Elvira Wakelnig. ISBN 978-1-897747-28-5
- Apophthegmata et gnomae secundum alphabetum. Annotated edition of Greek Gnomologia by Denis Searby, Måns Bylund, Pontus Österdahl, with English translation by Denis Searby. ISBN 978-1-897747-26-1
- Kekaumenos, Consilia et Narrationes. Greek text, English translation and commentary by Charlotte Roueché, with further translations by H.G. Beck, J. Signes Codoner, G.G. Litavrin, M.D. Spadaro. ISBN 978-1-897747-29-2
- Greek Florilegia : Pinakes. Transcription and English translations bu Charlotte Roueché and Denis Serby
Le site propose également une bibliographie de ses sources primaires (en grec, latin, arabe et syriaque) et secondaires. Il met également à disposition de tous ses schémas de données.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Soline Lau-Suchet (20 novembre 2013). Sharing Ancient Wisdoms. Le Carreau de la BULAC. Consulté le 24 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m5fh