Roger Pearse
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Roger Pearse
@roger_pearse
Blog posts from the Roger Pearse blog.
Katılım Eylül 2015
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Everyone should follow Roger Pearse. He is a one-man collating/translating/commentating machine for all things ancient. He has his own link on CCEL and puts out his own translation work for free. A saint!
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T.C. Schmidt@ProfTCSchmidt
A major discovery! 30 additional lines of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (444 BC) was found in a papyrus. Such finds are extremely rare—Empedocles was one of the last philosophers to write purely in verse not prose. He tried to prove he was divine by jumping into a volcano, it did not end well! Read an excellent summary by @roger_pearse roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/04…
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A drawing of the Column of Arcadius in Constantinople in 1559.
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A bit of background to the new find of 30 lines of Empedocles in a Cairo papyrus.
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The earliest Greek description of Islam, in John Damascene "On Heresies".
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Happy Easter! - Have a text and translation of Eusebius Gallicanus, Homily 12 (De Pascha 1). Just a snippet, but not in English before, I think.
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Sermons of Eusebius of Emesa preserved in an ancient Latin translation - starting to read about these.
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OK, I've approached this one wrongly. What do I do now?
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Interesting interview with someone doing translation, in this case from Arabic to English.
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Getting ready to translate the letters of Procopius of Gaza.
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Found some images missing from old posts on the blog. The fixing process was... interesting.
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You may have a PDF with an edition of a Greek text, but your troubles are only beginning. The joys of long-vanished pre-unicode Greek fonts.
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It can be jolly hard to find Islamic primary sources, especially in English. A search for the "Fath al-Bari" commentary on the hadith of Sahih al-Bukhari.
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I don't care, I'm on holiday.
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The 2025 update by Sever Voicu on pseudo-Chrysostom research is out, in the Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata.
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It's been 294 years now. So what are we going to do about that mass of unsorted, overlapping texts which we call Ephraem Graecus?
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What I did to the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of rather important PDFs for working with it.
Reference text is Assemani's 18th century edition, and he just printed anything under Ephraem's name in the manuscripts, duplicate or not. 😬
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Updated: the list of the "works of Ephraem Graecus", that great splodge of unedited Greek texts. The TLG changed their reference numbers since 2018, I found.
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@alexanderh78029 I fear so. I'll try to put something out there, but it's hard to find much of interest.
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@roger_pearse Beware, all these works are rhetorical exercises as you said with no real historical value. And many times, they deform the realities of their time just so that their text looks like a text of Demosthenes or the like.
Procopius, Libanius, Synesius, Themistius etc.
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From my diary: on translating the letters of Procopius of Gaza.
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