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[edit] Some of my Contributions

Created articles (length in bytes): Bibliotheca Teubneriana (7,406), Rival Lovers (7,397), Valentin Rose (classicist) (1,058), On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (687)

Other articles that are mainly by me in their current form: Epinomis

Created articles (mainly from public domain sources): Callistratus (grammarian), Callistratus (sophist), Callistratus (jurist), Philip of Opus, Polemon (scholarch), Crates of Athens, Crates of Tralles

Created disambiguation pages: Valentin Rose, Sophonias, Callistratus, Hermias (disambiguation), Soranus, Sense and Sensibilia, Physiognomics

Improved articles (in alphabetical order)

Aeneid: translations, bibliography (diff); external link cleanup (diff); relation between the poem's two halves and the two Homeric poems (diff)
Aramaic primacy: Wrote a clearer and more accurate account of what Papias says (diff) than what I found at Bible (where it less belonged); added mainstream scholarly view (diff) and promoted its inclusion on the talk page
Aristotle: Fixed the "Athenians sinning twice against philosophy" quote and dug up the reference in the Vita Marciana (diff); standardized titles (diff); added Bekker references to the quotes in Meteorology (Aristotle) (diff); improved Constitution of the Athenians (diff) and F. G. Kenyon (diff); completed and corrected the Bekker numbers article, adding image of a sample page (diff)
Carthago delenda est: Fixes including relation to ancient sources (diff)
Demosthenes: Against Leptines (correction and supplement: diff)
Eric Hoffer: Unpublished writings (diff)
Figures of speech: Hyperbaton (diff), Tmesis (diff)
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: imported table from French Wikipedia, provided citation, added image, etc. (diff)
Mathematical coincidence: Coincidence at the basis of music (diff)
Neapolitan flip coffee pot: Improvements (diff; much still to be done in coffeemakers and brewing methods)
On Translating Homer: Homer's four essential qualities (diff)
Pangram: Pangrams occurring naturally in ancient Greek literature (diff)
Parmenides: Toned down Shambhala interpretation and provided reference where needed (diff)
Petrarch Code of Doug Coldwell: Letter to Posterity (removed fraudulent claims and text of the letter, etc.: diff); De Viris Illustribus (Jerome) (diff, diff, diff, diff)
Pindar: Chronology of Pindar's odes (diff); correct figures for books in each genre (diff)
Plato: Reordered Template:Dialogues of Plato to give a better synopsis of traditional scholarly consensus on chronology (diff, diff); digested a contribution to Republic (Plato) into a fuller mention of the city-soul analogy (diff) and provided references for Isocrates' Busiris as a response to Republic (diff); Plato's Academy (diff)
Sappho: Apocryphal status of Christian book-burning stories; echo of Sappho fr. 2 in Gregory of Nazianzus' On Human Nature (diff; citation: diff); warning on unreliability of biographical readings and traditions (diff); digestion of another editor's contribution (diff); external link cleanup (diff); rescue of a deleted contribution by providing references (diff)
Sophists: Attempt towards a more accurate account of Protagoras (diff); digestion, with references, of another editor's contributions there (diff) and at Gorgias (diff)
Stephanus pagination: Added the image of a sample page (diff)
William James Stillman: Expansion to address Stillman's photography, which was not mentioned (diff)
Thucydides: References (diff, diff)
Thomas Gallus: Wikification (diff)

Essentially bibliographical enhancements to: Aretaeus of Cappadocia (diff), Hippocrates (diff), Sextus Propertius (list of Latin editions: diff), Cassius Dionysius Longinus (diff), On Generation and Corruption (diff), Plotinus (diff), Ibn Tufail (diff), Leiden Conventions (diff), Soranus (Greek physician) (diff), Nine lyric poets (diff), Heraclitus (diff)

Misc.: Acheloos River (Herodotus quotation: diff); Walter Bagehot ("cake of custom" and comparison to H.J.S. Maine: diff); Naphtha (use in Greek fire: diff); Dithyramb (Bacchylides reference: diff); Iliad and Odyssey (number of verses: diff, diff; translations: diff); Divine Comedy and Kitab al Miraj (corr. translation dates for Liber Scale Machometi: diff, diff); Larry Shaw (politician) (updates: diff, diff); Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture (Birk and Sanders, diff, Panter diff); references for Themistius ὁ εὐφραδής (diff); George Eliot (toned down the criticism of Romola: diff); Gospel of Luke (relation to other gospels: diff); Crux (literary) (amplification of fledgling article: diff); Godhead (Christianity) (usage in Pseudo-Dionysius: diff); Gore Vidal (improvements to article structure: diff); Derrick Shareef (amplification of fledgling article: diff); Vulgate (Stuttgart Vulgate: diff, restructuring: diff, diff); Sudoku (diff); Xenia (Greek) (diff); Pythagoras (diff, diff); Plato (diff); Alcman (diff); Simmias of Thebes (diff); Tyrtaeus (diff); Biblia Hebraica Quinta (diff); Lysias (diff)

Called for the deletion of: Gregory Cowan, Collapsible, St Cormac, Thucydides (disambiguation), On Breathing, Jerome's De viris illustribus Chapter 1 through Jerome's De viris illustribus Chapter 62

[edit] Image Contributions

Students and scholars use Stephanus pagination and Bekker numbers, usually without ever looking at the page layouts that established these standards of reference. Now these are even used online sans printed book, but Wikipedia makes it possible to follow a couple of clicks and see a page from Estienne's 1578 edition of Plato. "Oh, of course, now I see what the a b c d e mean."

Wikipedia can, more generally, give online information about the traditional offline scholarship that continues to make knowledge possible in many fields. Wiki includes lots of 1911 Britannica articles that refer to "the Teubner series" as if any educated person should know what that means (I found many of these references mistakenly formatted, because the Wiki editors did not). So I made a Bibliotheca Teubneriana article that adds some colorful reality to all this talk of Greek and Latin editions. I believe that a necessary application of fair use in Wikipedia is to make important books visible and familiar in this way.

Volume 1, Page 142 of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing the opening of Theaetetus	Page 184 of the first volume of Bekker's edition, published in 1831, showing the end of Sophistical Refutations and the beginning of Physics	The covers of Bibliotheca Teubneriana Greek texts through the years: Philodemi De ira liber, ed. C. Wilke (Leipzig, 1914); Bacchylidis carmina cum fragmentis, post B. Snell ed. H. Maehler (Leipzig, 1970); Poetae epici graeci, Pars II, Fasc. 1, ed. A. Bernabé (Munich, 2004)	Examples of the original Teubner Greek type, in its older (left: Aeschines, ed. F. Blass, Leipzig, 1895) and newer (Pindari carmina cum fragmentis, post B. Snell ed. H. Maehler, Leipzig, 1969) forms
Example of the upright variant of the original Teubner Greek type: Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquiae, ed. E. Habrich, Leipzig, 1960	Examples of more recent variants of the original Teubner Greek type, both italic (top: Euripides, Electra, ed. G. Basta Donzelli, Stuttgart 1995) and upright (center: Aeschyli tragoediae, ed. M.L. West, Stuttgart, 1990; bottom: Poetae epici graeci, Pars II, Fasc. 1, ed. A. Bernabé, Munich, 2004)	Teubner Greek type based on Griechische Antiqua (top: Philodemi De ira liber, ed. C. Wilke, Leipzig, 1914; center: Homeri Odyssea, ed. P. Von der Muehll, Stuttgart, 1962), with a more recent digital descendant (bottom: Homeri Ilias, rec. M.L. West, volumen alterum, Munich, 2000)	Detail of a manuscript in Milan's Biblioteca Trivulziana (MS 1080), written in 1337 by Francesco di ser Nardo da Barberino, showing the beginning of Dante's Comedy.
The beginning of Phaedrus in one of the most important medieval manuscripts of Plato, Codex Clarkianus 39 in the Bodleian Library, written in AD 895.	Iliad, Book 8, lines 245-253, in a manuscript of the late fifth or early sixth century AD	Dionysiou monastery, codex 90, a 13th century manuscript containing selections from Herodotus, Plutarch and (shown here) Diogenes Laertius