LAGOOS [λαγωoς]

A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

A project dedicated to the edition and study of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ diary, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Innsbruck

William M. Barton

William studied Greek and Latin in Britain and Canada before gaining his PhD in Classics from King’s College, London in 2015. William’s research interests include use of Ancient Greek by writers from the Renaissance onwards, late-antique poetry, the representation of the natural environment in early modern literature, and the place of the Classical languages in the history of science.

William’s interests in ‘Neo-’Ancient Greek production have focused so far principally on authors active in Austria, Spain, England and Germany. In June 2022, William was awarded a START-Prize by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project, dedicated to the ‘secret’ Greek diary of Hellenist Karl Benedikt Hase will run from 2023–2029.

For further information or inquiries about the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series (BNLS), please email William at the address above, or visit the series’ website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bloomsbury-neolatin-series-early-modern-texts-and-anthologies/

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0270-0153

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xyaQsMwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Email: william.barton@uibk.ac.at

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Pascasius Justus Turcq. On Gambling. A Critical Edition. (Ghent: LYSA, 2022). ISBN: 978–9464447668 (doi: doi.org/10.54179/2201)
  • The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary. (London, Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2018). ISBN: 978–1350040540.
  • Mountain Aesthetics in Early Modern Latin Literature. (London: Routledge, 2016). ISBN: 978–1138228641.
Edited Volumes
  • Barton, William M. and Van Rooy, Raf (eds.), Latin–Greek Code-switching in Early Modernity. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (JOLCEL) 9 (2024) (DOI: https://jolcel.ugent.be/issue/25766/download/10938).
  • Barton, William M., Harrison, Stephen, Manuwald, Gesine and Xinyue, Bobby, Neo-Latin Scholarship and Poetry, London: Bloomsbury 2024. ISBN: 9781350379473 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/anthology-of-neolatin-poetry-by-classical-scholars-9781350379442/).

Articles

  • Barton, William M. (2024). “On Translations of Byzantine Greek: A Bilingual Letter from Vicente Mariner to Andreas Schott in 1617”. Translat Library 6(1) (DOI: 10.7275/tl.2068).
  • Barton, William M. (2024). “Latin–Greek Code-Switching in Vicente Mariner’s (ca. 1570– 1642) Correspondence with Andreas Schott (1552–1629): A Case-Study”, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (JOLCEL) 9: 74–94. (doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.87172).
  • Barton, William M. and Van Rooy, Raf (2024). “Introduction: Latin–Greek Code-switching in Early Modernity”, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (JOLCEL) 9: 1–26 (doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.90013).
  • Barton, William M. (2024). ‘The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522) on the Philologist’s Work and the Place of Greek’, in: Barton, W. M., Harrison, S., Manuwald, G., Xinyue, B. Neo-Latin Scholarship and Poetry, London: Bloomsbury 2024, pp. 59–80.
  • Barton, William M. (2023), « La langue grecque dans le journal intime de C.-B. Hase », Camenae 29 (2023): 1–23.
  • ‘The Mountain at Nature’s Peak: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Oxford’s Lenten Verse’ in: Korenjak, M. and Tautschnig, I. (eds), Pontes X: Die antike Literatur und die Wissenschaftliche Revolution, (Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden), pp. 207–232 (doi.org/10.5771/9783968219394-207)
  • ‘The Poetry of Jeremiah Horrocks’s Venus in sole visa (1662): Astronomy, Authority and the ‘New Science’’, Perspectives on Science 30 (3), 982–1004 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00566).
  • ‘Greek and Latin poetry on sixteenth-century questions of faith: poetry from Cambridge’s theological faculty’ in: Manuwald, G. and Nicholas, L. (eds) An Anthology of Neo-Latin in British Universities. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 141–159 (doi: 10.5040/9781350160293.ch-005).
  • ‘Un epigrama trilingüe de Vicente Mariner d’Alagón’, in H. Lamers and S. Bär (eds), Studia in honorem Vibeke Roggen. (Hermes: Oslo, 2022), pp. 179–197.
  • ‘Greek and Latin poetry on sixteenth-century questions of faith: poetry from Cambridge’s theological faculty’ in: Manuwald, G. and Nicholas, L. (eds) An Anthology of Neo-Latin in British Universities. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 141–159.
  • ‘The Poetry of Jeremiah Horrocks’s Venus in sole visa (1662): Astronomy, Authority and the ‘New Science’’, Perspectives on Science 30 (3) (2022), 1–37 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00566).
  • ‘Humanist Greek in Austria’, in Pontani, F. and Weise, S. (eds) The Hellenizing Muse: A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 6 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 684–717. [co-authored with Bauer, M. M. and Korenjak, M.] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652758-016).
  • ‘Beavers as the Bees of New France: The Beaver’s ‘Allegorical Turn’ in Father François Du Creux’s Historia Canadensis’, in Feile Tomes, M., Goldwyn, A. J. and Duquès, M. (eds) Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas (Leiden, New York: Brill, 2021): 366–397 [co-authored with Mailloux, J.-N.] (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468658_015).
  • ‘Neo-Latin Literature in 2019’, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, (YWMLS) 81 (2021): 13–38 [co-authored with Marsico, C., Schaffenrath, F., Subaric, L. and Walser-Bürgler, I.] (doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08101003).
  • ‘‘Car la terre ici n’est telle qu’un fol l’estime’: Landscape Description as an Interpretative Tool in Two Early Modern Poems on New France’, in Enenkel, K. and Melion, W. (eds) Hermeneutics of Landscape. (Leiden, New York: Brill, 2021): 261–287 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440401_010).
  • ‘Pietro Bizzarri’s Greek Epigram to Elizabeth I: New Evidence for Text, Context and Authorship from ÖNB cod. phil. gr. 299’, Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 47.1 (2020): 1–15 [co-authored with M. M. Bauer] (https://doi.org/10.2143/LIAS.47.1.3289048).
  • ‘Singing the Science of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verse of Oxford and Cambridge’, in: Friedenthal, M., Marti, H. and Seidel, R. (eds) Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context. (Leiden, New York: Brill, 2020): 164–187 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436206_007).
  • ‘The Pleasures of the Hills: Conrad Gessner, Descriptio montis Fracti’, in: Hadas, D., Manuwald, M. and Nicholas, L. (eds) An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature. (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 147–160 (10.5040/9781350157323.ch-009).
  • ‘Introduction’, in: Hadas, D., Manuwald, M. and Nicholas, L. (eds) An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature. (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 1–24 [co-authored with L. Nicholas] (10.5040/9781350157323.0005).
  • ‘Neo-Latin Literature in 2018’, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS) 80 (2020): 3–25 [co-authored with C. Marsico, F. Schaffenrath, L. Subaric and I. Walser (LBI)] ( https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08001003).
  • ‘The Beauty and Horror of the Mountains: Thomas Burnet, Telluris theoria sacra, I.1.9’, in: Manuwald, M., Houghton, L. B. T. and Nicholas, L. (eds) An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature.(London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 237–250 (10.5040/9781350098930.ch-015).
  • ‘Adam Franz Kollár’s Χάριτες (1756): Theocritean Praise of Maria Theresa in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Vienna’, in: Weise, S. and Beron, A.–M. (eds) Hyblaea Avena. Theokrit in römischer Kaiserzeit und Früher Neuzeit. Palingenesia 122. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2020): 175–193.
  • ‘Pastoral and the Italian Landscape in the Latin Poetry of the Ventennio Fascista’, in: Lamers, H., Reitz-Joosse, B. and Sanzotta, V. (eds)Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. (Leuven: Leuven University Press 2020): 77–104 (10.2307/j.ctvmd83vq.8).
  • ‘The Georgics off the Canadian Coast: Marc Lescarbot’s A-dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian Tradition’, in: Freer, N. and Xinyue, B. (eds) Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics, (London: Bloomsbury 2019): 155–163 (10.5040/9781350070547.ch-011).
  • ‘Neo-Latin Literature in 2017’, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS) 79 (2019): 5–17 [co-authored with C. Marsico, F. Schaffenrath, L. Subaric and I. Walser (LBI)] (https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-07901002).
  • ‘Neo-Latin Literature in 2016’, in: Dunphy, G., Scott, P. and Wharton, S. (eds) The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS) 78 (2018): 1–17 [co-authored with C. Marsico, F. Schaffenrath, L. Subaric and I. Walser (LBI)] (https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-07801002).
  • ‘Gessner, Conrad’, in: Sgarbi, M. (ed), Encylopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy. (New York, NY: Springer 2018): 1097–1099 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1097-1).
  • ‘Between Ἑλλάς and Ελλάδα: Patrick Leigh Fermor, the Classical Tradition and Greece’, The Philhellene 10 (2018): 10–15.
  • ‘Neo-Latin Literature in 2015’, in: Dunphy, G., Scott, P. and Wharton, S. (eds) The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS) 77 (2017): 5–14 [co-authored with C. Marsico, F. Schaffenrath, L. Subaric and I. Walser (LBI)] (https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-07701002).
  • ‘Der Landschaftsbegriff in der neulateinischen Literatur’, in: Korenjak, M. and Rollinger, R (eds) Die Entdeckungen der Landschaft. (Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau, 2017): 251–271.
  • ‘Aldrovandi, Ulisse’, in: Sgarbi, M. (ed) Encylopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. (New York, NY: Springer 2016): 890–892 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_890-1).
  • ‘Latin and Vernacular Translation in Early Modern Natural Philosophical Literature: A Case Study from Monte Baldo’, Scientia Poetica 20 (2016): 24–40 (doi.org/10.1515/scipo-2016-0103).
  • ‘An Eighteenth-Century Thought Experiment on Climate Change: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer’s ‘De ignis seu caloris certa portione Heluetiae adsignata’ (1708)’, Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 42 (2) (2015): 135–166 [co-authored with S. Migletti (Johns Hopkins University)] (10.2143/LIAS.42.2.3141804).
  • ‘The Third Elegy of Laurent Le Brun’s (S.J.) Franciad: Difficultas Itinerum in Silvis Canadensibus, The Difficulties of Expression in the Canadian Forest’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 49 (3) (2013): 439–446.
Book Reviews
  • Barton, William M. (2024). (Review) Jason König, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, Princeton University Press: Princeton, Oxford, 2022. ISBN 9780691201290, pp. 480. 6.13 x 9.25, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 31(2):218–222 (DOI: 10.1007/s12138-024-00664-2).
  • Barton on Sarah Betite et Hélène Wurmser (eds), Eleutheria! Retour à la liberté: Découvrir et transmettre l’Antiquité depuis la Révolution grecque de 1821. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2021. Pp. 192. ISBN 9782729712549. €25,00. (BMCR 2022.12.21).
  • Marcelo Epstein and Ruth Spivak (eds.), The Latin of Science. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2019. 395 pp. ISBN 9780865168602, in Neo-Latin News 68 3&4 (2020): 176–180: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191392.
  • Hans-Christian Günther, Zwei Liebesgedichte vom Ausgang der lateinischen Antike: Ausonius’ Bissula und das Pervigilium Veneris. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 15. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2017. Pp. 95. ISBN 9783959482622, in Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 71/72 (2018/2019): pp. 24–26 (https://doi.org/10.25651/3.4555861).
  • P. J. Goodman (ed.), Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, xvi + 418 pp., ISBN: 978-1-108-42368-7, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019): (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-019-00525-3).
  • S. Weise (ed.) HELLENISTI! Altgriechisch als Literatursprache im neuzeitlichen Europa. (Palingenesia Band 107). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. 389 pp. ISBN 978-3-515-11622-0, in Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 70 (1/2) (2017): pp. 118–123.
  • Urs B. Leu (2016) Conrad Gessner (1516–1565): Universalgelehrter und Naturforscher der Renaissance, Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ Libro; 464 Seiten ISBN-10: 3038101532. ISBN-13: 978-3038101536. 13 x 4 x 24,4 cm. 92 Ill. Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 69.1–2 (2016): 66–70
  • Gilbert Tournoy and M. Mund-Dopchie (eds) La correspondance de Guillaume Budé et Juan Luis Vives. Introduction, critical edition, and notes. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 38. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. 160 pp. ISBN: 978-94-6270-036-9 in Neo-Latin News SPRING  Vol. 64, (2016): 69–71.
  • Hagit Amirav and Hans-Martin Kirn (eds) Theodore Bibliander. De ratione communi omnium linguarum et literarum commentarius. Foreword by Irena Backus. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 475. Geneva: Librarie Droz S.A., 2011. liv + 684 pp. ISBN: 978­-2-600-01490-8 Neo-Latin News FALL – WINTER Vol. 62 (2014): 292–294.
  • Jourdain-Annequin, Colette, Quand Grecs et Romains découvraient les Alpes: “les Alpes voisines du ciel”. Paris: Picard, 2011. 313pp. ISBN: 978-2-7084-0836-4 in Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 65 (2012): 250–253.
  • Caragounis, C. C (ed.), Greek: A Language in Evolution. Essays in Honour of Antonios N. Jannaris. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2010.  Pp. xiv, 344.  ISBN: 9783487142555 in Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 63 (2011): 1–4.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS
  • ‘Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Cultural’ Philhellenism’ • The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Annual Conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association) (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘El latín junto al griego en las obras y la correspondencia del humanista Vicente Mariner’ • Identidades del Humanismo, Congreso International, Universidad de Léon (Spain) 20–22nd May 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘Transkribus and the Secret Diaries of K. B. Hase’ • Transkribus User Conference (TUC) 2024, Innsbruck, 15–16th February 2024.
  • Barton, William M. and Shadrin, Lev, ‘Digital Approaches towards the Edition of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ Diary’ • The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches and Perspectives (GrECI Conference), Athens, 1–2nd February 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘Ein Leben auf Altgriechisch: Forschungsperspektiven aus dem Tagebuch des Byzantinisten K. B. Hase’ • Österreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft (ÖBG), Vienna, 30th January 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘The Secret Diaries of Karl Benedikt Hase: A Digital Edition of ‘New’ Ancient Greek’ • Du calame au clavier: colloque de philologie numérique, University of Grenoble (Saint-Martin-d’Hères) France, 17–19th January 2024.
  • Barton, William M., ‘Literature and Education as a Political Act: K. B. Hase’s ‘Cultural’ Philhellenism in 19th-century Paris’ • Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft (Ringvoresung), Innsbruck, 12th December 2023.
  • ‘The LAGOOS Model: Early Modern Greek’ • TRANSKRIBUS for Greek and Latin in the Early Modern Period, Innsbruck, 28th April 2023.
  • ‘Helleno(ger)mania in the Digital Age: The edition of K. B. Hase’s Greek diaries’ • Helleno(ger)mania: Lorenz Rhodoman und der Philhellenismus des 16. Jhds im digitalen Zeitalter, Wuppertal, Germany, 28–29th March 2023.
  • ’“Cultural” Philhellenism in 19th-century Paris: The Correspondence of Georges Theocharopoulos and Charles-Benoît Hase’ • Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History, National Library of Greece, Athens, 15th–17th March 2023.
  • ‘La influencia de Nebrija en el humanismo griego: el caso de Nikolaos Sofianos’ • Nebrija en Alcalá de Henares (1513–1522) y su legado, Alcalá de Henares, Spain 30th November – 2nd December 2022.
  • ‘Latin–Greek Code-Switching in Vicente Mariner’s Correspondence with André Schott. A Case-Study.’ • Latin-Greek Code-switching in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference, Leuven, Belgium 13th–14th October 2022.
  • ‘Introduction: Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Classical Antiquity’ • Latin-Greek Code-switching in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference, Leuven, Belgium 13th–14th October 2022.
  • ‘A Georgic Vision of Newfoundland: Parmenius’ De navigatione (London, 1582)’ • IANLS 2022, Leuven 31st July – 6th August 2022.
  • ‘L’hellénisme et les usages du grec ancien au XIXe siècle : Le journal intime ‹ secret › de C.-B. Hase’ • Congrès de la SEMEN-L, Dijon, 8-11th June 2022.
  • ‘La poesía trilingüe de Vicent Mariner: un estudio de caso’ • Societat Catalana d’Estudis Clàssics, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 21nd April 2022.
  • Trilingual Verse Composition: Latin, Greek, and Spanish in the Poetry of Vicente Mariner • RSA Annual Meeting 2022, Dublin, Ireland, 30th March 2022.
  • ‘Later Neo-Greek, and the ‘secret diary’ of 19th-century Hellenist Charles-Benoît Hase’ • Warburg Institute Workshop – ‘Neo-Greek’ literature, Waburg Institute, London (online), 11th March 2022.
  • ‘A Symbol for Natural World: The Mountain in Early Modern Oxford’s Act Verse’, RSA Annual Meeting 2021 (online) 22nd April 2021.
  • ‘Oxford’s Act Verse and Jeremiah Horrocks’ Cosmology’, Eloquentia Academica workshop, (online) 9th September 2020.
  • ‘The “Baroque” in Laurent Le Brun’s Franciad (1638)’, Society for Neo-Latin Studies Colloquium, The Warburg Institute, London, 6th February 2020.
  • ‘The Mountain as a Symbol of the Natural World in Early Modern Oxford’s Lenten Verse’ • London Renaissance Seminar, Birkbeck College, London, 7th September 2019.
  • ‘Marc Lescarbot and the Representation of the Canadian Natural Landscape in Early Modern Literary Discourse’ • International Society of Cultural History (ISCH) Annual Conference, Tallinn, 26th–29th June 2019.