User:Wareh

• Created articles (length in bytes): Bibliotheca Teubneriana (7,406), Rival Lovers (7,397), Thomas Preston (writer) (7,241), Ptolemy-el-Garib (1,433), Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (1,341), Valentin Rose (classicist) (1,058)

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

• Articles I have doubled in size: Thomas Gallus (diff), Palazzo Ducale, Urbino (description of the studiolo, diff)

• Created articles (almost entirely from public domain sources): Callistratus (grammarian), Callistratus (sophist), Callistratus (jurist), Philip of Opus, Polemon (scholarch), Crates of Athens, Crates of Tralles, John Case (some clarifications added: diff)

• Created stubs: On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration, Thomas Preston (composer), Transformation optics

• Created disambiguation pages: Valentin Rose, Sophonias, Callistratus, Hermias, Soranus, Sense and Sensibilia, Physiognomics, Erinna (disambiguation), Pun (disambiguation), Ariston, Leonius, Kirat, Ę, Patron (disambiguation), Aristotle (disambiguation), Denniston, Gelo (disambiguation), Classical education, John Case (disambiguation), Peele (disambiguation), Yeates, Murari

• Created categories: Category:Prison writings, Category:Biblical exegesis, Category:Dual-language series of texts

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)
• Alexander of Aphrodisias: online texts (diff); cleanup, 1210 condemnation, life, and ancient sources for teachers (diff); Sosigenes the Peripatetic (diff); Condemnations (University of Paris) (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); external links cleanup (diff, diff); more coherent article organization, with a couple of small substantive additions (diff); help with lead (diff); remove erroneous date (diff); restore astronomical argument with reference and improved accuracy, and rewrite incoherent comparison to Platonic metaphysics (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); consolidated all of this page and the list from Aristotle into Corpus Aristotelicum, writing a new lead (diff); Winter's theory that Mechanics is by Archytas (diff, diff)
• Carthago delenda est: Fixes including relation to ancient sources (diff)
• Al-Ghazali: autobiography (diff, diff, diff)
• Guido Cavalcanti: Commentaries (diff, and at Giles of Rome, diff)
• Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: Supplemented information and reorganized (diff)
• Demosthenes: Against Leptines (correction and supplement: diff)
• The Divine Comedy: correct translation dates for Liber Scale Machometi (diff, also at Kitab al Miraj: diff); correct characterization of influences from the Muslim world (diff); misc. tidying and digesting of others' contributions (diff, diff); Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture (Birk and Sanders, diff, Panter diff, Dalí diff)
• Figures of speech: Hypallage (diff), Hyperbaton (diff), Pun (diff), Tmesis (diff)
• Eric Hoffer: Unpublished writings (diff)
• Thomas Kyd: disputed authorship of 1 Hieronimo (diff)
• Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Imported table from French Wikipedia, provided citation, added image, etc. (diff)
• Lysias: Wikify, correct 1911 Britannica Greek scanning problems, and link to online books (diff); birth year (diff); rehabilitate Jebb's 1911 stylistic comparisons, with references and less peacockery (diff)
• Mahābhārata: What Dio Chrysostom says (diff); base texts of English versions (diff)
• Major Barbara (play): Real-life models of characters (diff, and at Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, diff)
• Mathematical coincidence: Coincidence at the basis of music (diff)
• The Name of the Rose: Eco did not alter the line by Bernard of Cluny from which he titled his novel (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); first aid to Nous (diff); remove POV-fork version of Theory of forms at Idea, and other minor fixes (though the remaining flaws are major) (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); minor improvement of main article (diff); Theory of forms (deacidify, diff; deobfuscate, diff); Diairesis (accomplish merge and minor improvements: diff)
• Praxilla: Quoted and gave information on Hymn to Adonis's sun, moon, and cucumbers (diff)
• Pythagoras: Occasional interventions in a mess of an article (diff; diff; as coiner of philosophos, 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); provision of references (diff, diff, diff); article organization (diff, diff); Carson (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), more information about Halcyon (diff)
• William James Stillman: Expansion to address Stillman's photography, which was not mentioned (diff)
• Thucydides: References (diff, diff); collaborative improvement of lead (diff); translation of hosios after Chadwick's Lexicographica Graeca (diff)
• Universal history: Organization (diff); add missing section on Greek, Latin, and Arabic texts (diff); accomplish merge (diff)
• Versification: Alexandrine (once-over: diff) and Poly-Olbion (diff); The Owl and the Nightingale (diff); Leonine verse (correct erroneous article: 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, diff), Nine lyric poets (diff), Heraclitus (diff), Alcidamas (diff), Hambacher Fest (diff), Matthew Hale (jurist) (literary career: diff), Data (Euclid) (diff), Palaephatus (diff), Lawrence Humphrey (diff), Hermogenes of Tarsus (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; etc. diff, diff); Larry Shaw (politician) (updates: diff, 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); Alcman (diff); Simmias of Thebes (diff); Tyrtaeus (diff); Biblia Hebraica Quinta (diff); Liaison (French)(diff); A Greek-English Lexicon (diff, diff, diff); Heinrich Heine (diff); Eumelus of Corinth (diff); Erinna (diff); Gini coefficient (diff); Vittorino da Feltre (diff); Mucedorus (diff); Douay-Rheims Bible (diff, diff); Clay Sanskrit Library (diff); Philodemus (diff); Kavya (diff); Buddhacarita (diff); Stephen Langton (diff); Oratory of the Paraclete (diff); War of the Eight Saints (diff); Robert Duncan (bishop) (diff); Empedocles (diff); Nuclear program of Iran (diff); University of Lille (diff); New Jerusalem Bible (diff); Steelyard balance (diff); Ibn Abi Usaibia (diff); Suda (diff); James Farley Post Office (diff); New Thought (diff); Henri-Irénée Marrou (diff); Muscio (diff); Ancient Greek units of measurement (diff); A Latin Dictionary (diff)

• Called for the deletion of: Gregory Cowan, Collapsible (was OR, now a redirect), St Cormac, On Breathing, Jerome's De viris illustribus Chapter 1 through Jerome's De viris illustribus Chapter 62, Good sense (was OR, now a redirect), Eidon, Noesis (disambiguation), Divine Nous, Counterdihairesis, Raphael Lataster, Aberrant Dreams I: The Awakening, Combie, Kalydnos, Panchaia, Tyrrhenos, Basileia (Mythology), Vianna (Mythology), Boudinoi, Aeniana, Ouitia, Kerne (was OR, now a redirect)

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.

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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	SEE IMAGE. 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)	SEE IMAGE. 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
SEE IMAGE. Example of the upright variant of the original Teubner Greek type: Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquiae, ed. E. Habrich, Leipzig, 1960	SEE IMAGE. 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)	SEE IMAGE. 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)	Dante's meeting with Matelda (Purgatorio), lithograph by Cairoli (1889)
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
Pope Pius II (the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), by Joos van Wassenhove, from the studiolo of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino	Intarsia paneling of the studiolo	Astronomical instruments and mazzocchio	A mechanical clock
Title page of an early edition of Thomas Preston's Cambyses, showing the division of roles among actors.	Peanut butter cookies!	SEE IMAGE. Budé edition of Herodotus 2.69-70, on the hunting of crocodiles.	SEE IMAGE. Sample page layout from Budhasvāmin's The Emperor of the Sorcerors in the Clay Sanskrit Library
Title page of John Case's Sphaera Civitatis (1588)	Last page of Al-Ghazali's autobiography in MS Istanbul, Shehid Ali Pasha 1712, dated A.H. 509 = 1115-1116.	Volume 3, pages 32-33, of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres