So far, the work performed by PURA has developed along three complementary lines of research which have produced three kinds of outputs: our database, the project monograph, and other volumes stemming from our research. In Year 1 we created the Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism (www.atticism.eu) in collaboration with the Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities. This database collects our analysis of lemmas from Atticist lexica, the manuscripts which transmit them, and the scholars who produced them. So far, as the result of work undertaken in Months 1–54, DEA includes 220 lexicographical articles, 55 descriptions of manuscripts, and 9 articles on scholars and their works. By the end of the project in December 2026, DEA will contain 60 further lexicographical entries, the full mapping of the manuscripts of Phrynichus’ Eclogue, and ca. 7 more entries in the section Scholars&Works. Based on the data acquired through this work, we are writing the project monograph, devoted to Atticism, its prodromes in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, and legacy in the Byzantine age. Vol. 1, The Roots of Atticism, was published in December 2024, while vol. 2 (The Age of Atticism) and 3 (The Legacy of Atticism) are expected to be published in 2027. Meanwhile, our work on two lexica – Pollux’s Onomasticon and Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica – has produced two further volumes: The Textual Tradition of Pollux’s Onomasticon, by J. Cavarzeran (forthcoming autumn 2025), a reappraisal of this lexicon’s transmission in the Middle Ages, and New Approaches to Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica, ed. by F. Favi, A. Pellettieri, and O. Tribulato (forthcoming autumn 2025), which stems from PURA’s second workshop (September 2022) and paves the way for a new edition of the lexicon. PURA has also hosted three visiting researchers (from Athens, Ghent, and Oxford) and PURA team members have participated in conferences and workshops in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Coimbra, Cologne, Ghent, Hamburg, Meran, Messina, Pisa, Oxford, Potenza, Thessaloniki, and Venice.
Overall, to date PURA has produced 295 publications (see the full list here:
https://pric.unive.it/projects/pura/publications(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) and several more are forthcoming.
