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A small list of Roman authors missing from the (online) catalog #85

Open nevenjovanovic opened 8 years ago

nevenjovanovic commented 8 years ago

As a teacher, I wanted to present as a timeline visualization all Roman authors mentioned in the first part of our first year undergraduate survey of Latin literature, with links to their CTS URNs in the Perseus Catalog (the result can be seen here). Our undergraduate textbook mentions 51 authors until the year 43 BCE; five of them are not listed in the online version of the Perseus Catalog (and therefore they lack CTS URNs), while two don't have MADS records either in the catalog_data or in the catalog_pending Github repositories.

Here is the list of the authors:

  1. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus http://viaf.org/viaf/27455503 (no MADS)
  2. Lucius Plotius Gallus (no VIAF, no Wikipedia, no MADS)
  3. Marcus Antonius (the orator) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176122 (absent from the online version of the catalog, no VIAF entry), n50-51933 (MADS)
  4. Lucius Licinius Crassus (the orator) http://viaf.org/viaf/24491444 (absent from the online version), nr95-24523 (MADS)
  5. Publius Valerius Cato http://viaf.org/viaf/17366423 (absent from the online version), n84-208759 (MADS)

Of course, all of the above are authors of fragmentary preserved, or completely lost, texts, but it would be nice and scholarly impressive to have a nearly exhaustive list of authors in the Perseus Catalog. In the following days, I'll try to prepare entries for Ti. Gracchus and Plotius Gallus, following the instructions, and to submit them as pull requests to the catalog_pending repository.

AlisonBabeu commented 8 years ago

I will look forward to receiving the MADS records but also have one thought. In general, the Perseus Catalog tries to have at least one representative edition for each author included in the catalog, is there a source edition including any and or all of these authors for which a corresponding MODS record could be created?