Dickinson College Commentaries is a digital project of

Dickinson College Dickinson College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered on September 9, 1783, ...

, which is located in

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, near

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, in the U.S. state of

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. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of

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History

In 2010 DCC launched a pilot site in

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that was dedicated to notes on the selections from

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used in the American

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Latin Exam. The site moved to

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/ref> in 2012. The project director is Christopher Francese, the Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies at Dickinson College.

Peer Review

Commentary proposals are reviewed and edited in a process similar to that used by traditional academic print publishers.

Copyright status

Dickinson College Commentaries supports

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content, and publishes all content under a

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CC-BY-SA license.

External links

Dickinson College Commentaries

Dickinson Classics Online
(Chinese sister project)
Anne Mahoney, “Latin Commentaries on the Web.” Teaching Classical Languages 5.2 (2014): 133–143.

References

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