Edwin Floyd made a presentation on April 1, 2007 "How Did the Greeks Learn Poetic Patterns After the Introduction of Writing? " at the 52nd Annual Conference, March 30-April 1, 2007 of the International Linguistic Association, hosted by Hunter College, City University of New York.
Edwin Floyd made a Classics Department presentation "How Penelope Looks: Textual Problems in Odyssey 23.94-95", Monday, October 30, 2006, at 4:15 P.M., 324 Cathedral of Learning. Two versions of the abstract of the paper are available. One uses Unicode to write Greek; the other transliterates Greek words. Depending on your browser and its settings, the Unicode version may or may not provide a satisfactory version of the various Greek words included in the abstract. In the transliterated version, accents are not indicated, but ô is used for omega.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "The poetic and lexical histories of 'stentorian' and 'mentor'" at the 51st Annual Conference, March 31-April 2, 2006 of the International Linguistic Association, hosted by York University in Toronto, Ontario.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "Indo-European Poetic Patterns in Pindar, Olympian 10 and 11" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Assocation, in Montreal, January, 2006.
Edwin Floyd made a Classics Department presentation "The 'New' Sappho (Fr. 58) and Some of its Indo-European and Greek Resonances" at 4:00 P.M., Monday, September 26, 2005 in 149 C.L. (French Nationality Room).
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "Truth and Opinion in Nonnos' Paraphrase of John and Dionysiaca" at the 12th meeting of FIEC (Fédération Internationale des Assocations d'Études Classiques), held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, August 23-28, 2004.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "The Importance of Pitch in the Odyssey" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Assocation, in Boston, January, 2005.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "Indo-European Elements in Theodoros Prodromos' Poems for Alexios Aristenos 'Guardian of the Laws'" at the 50th Annual Conference, April 15-17, 2005 of the International Linguistic Association, held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "The Etymology and Meaning of Greek Sapha 'Completely, Cleanly'" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Assocation, in San Francisco, January 3, 2004.
Edwin Floyd made a Classics Department presentation Baleful Signs: Linear B, The Cypriote Syllabary, and Homer at 3:30 P.M., Monday, September 29, 2003 in the Scottish Nationality Room, 139 C.L.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation "The Late Antique and Byzantine Use of Indo-European Poetic Patterns" at the annual Byzantine Studies Conference, to be held this year at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The specific session at which this presentation will be made is Saturday, October 18, 2003, 4:30-6:15 PM. Two versions of the abstract of the paper are available. One uses Unicode to write Greek; the other transliterates Greek words.
On Sunday, April 6, 2003 Edwin Floyd made a presentation Sravah in the Rig-Veda - Fame or Reputation at the 213th meeting of the American Oriental Society in Nashville, Tennessee.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation Classical Confusion: TLG vs. LSJ to the Pitt chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the undergraduate Classics honorary society, on Friday, January 17, 2003, at 3:00 PM in the Indian Nationality Room, 327 C.L.
Edwin Floyd made a presentation Truth and Opinion in Nonnos' Paraphrase of John and Dionysiaca to the Department of Religious Studies on Friday, October 4, 2002, at 12:00 Noon in 2628 Cathedral of Learning.
Edwin Floyd presented a paper Penelope and Famous Odysseus: From Indo-European to Homer and Beyond on Monday, October 7, 2002, at 3:30 PM in the Norwegian Nationality Room, 151 CL.
Information concerning Sanskrit, Avestan, Old English, etc.
Miscellaneous sites and information, including material on birding; ecology; British, American and European history; molecular biology; and the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh.
In November, 2001, Edwin Floyd presented a paper "Who killed Patroklos? Expressing the inexpressible through an inherited formula" at the 13th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
In August, 2001, Edwin Floyd presented a paper "What light do Nonnos, Paraphrase of John 1.3 and the Nicene Creed shed on one another?" at the 20th Congress of Byzantine Studies in Paris.
On December 1, 2000 Edwin Floyd presented a paper "Indo-European for the Literary Critic: A Sanskrit Perspective on Why Odysseus Leaves Kalypso". The paper was jointly sponsored by the Pitt chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the Classics Department, and the Asian Studies Program at Pitt.
Abstract of the paper "Rudra-Siva in Rig-Veda 1.114", which Edwin Floyd read at the World Sanskrit Conference, held in Bangalore, India, January, 1997.
Abstract of the paper "Eusebius' Greek Version of Vergil's Fourth Eclogue", which Edwin Floyd read at a conference on the politics of translation in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, held at the University of Pittsburgh, April 11-12, 1997.
Abstract of the paper "Bringing praise like cows: Rig-Veda 1.114.9, 6.49.12, 10.23.6, and 10.127.8", which Edwin Floyd read at ICANAS 35 (35th meeting of the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies), held in Budapest, Hungary, July, 1997.
Abstract of the paper "Indo-European poetic formulas in Christian Greek literature", which Edwin Floyd read at CIL (XVIème Congrès International des Linguistes), held in Paris, July, 1997. Pour une version française du résumé, cliquez ici
In November, 1997, Edwin Floyd made a presentation, "The Nachleben of Vergil, Eclogue 4", for the Pitt chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the national honorary society for Classics undergraduates. Various interpretations of Eclogue 4 were covered, including a connection with the late third century figure Carausius which has been developed by Guy de la Bédoyère. Guy de la Bédoyère presented some of this material in a July, 1997 letter to Current Archaeology. A brief follow-up by Edwin Floyd to de la Bédoyère's July letter appeared in Current Archaeology, no. 155.
Edwin Floyd read a paper "Transcendence of Rome: Eusebius' Greek Translation of Vergil, Eclogue 4", on April 18, 1998 at the 43rd Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, held at New York University. For an abstract of the pa per, click here.
This leads to an abstract of the paper "Cometas, On Lazarus: A Resurrection of Indo-European Poetics?" which Edwin Floyd read at the Tenth UCLA Indo-European Conference, May 23, 1998.
This leads to an abstract of the paper "Homeric and Hesiodic allusions in Cometas, On Lazarus (Anth. Pal. 15.40)" which Edwin Floyd read at the Byzantine Studies Conference, held at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, November 5-8, 1998. In addition to considering Cometas' use of archaic Greek epic, this paper develops the idea that post-Homeric material (including poems as late as the ninth century A.D.) can be of use in elucidating Homer's use of inherited poetic formulas. The paper was presented at a session in honor of Robert Browning (the noted twentieth century Byzantinist - not the nineteenth century poet).
This leads to a brief abstract of a paper "Sappho the Indo-Europeanist: Fr. 44.4 and 96.8 (Voigt)", which Edwin Floyd presented to the Pitt Classics Department at 3:30 P.M. on December 4, 1998).
In February, 1999, Edwin Floyd presented a lecture "The New Geography of Indo-European: The Contribution of Poetics" to the Pittsburgh Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
In March, 1999, Edwin Floyd read a paper "Sravah in the context of aksitam: Rig-Veda 9.110.5" at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society in Baltimore, Maryland.
In August, 1999, Edwin Floyd presented a paper "Homeric and other ancient patterns in Nonnos, Paraphrase of John" at FIEC (Fédération Internationale des associations d'Études Classiques). The conference met in Kavala, Greece, August 24-30, 1999. This leads to extensive information about Nonnos, Paraphrase of John, including Tony Prost's on-going translation project.
In January, 2000, Edwin Floyd presented a paper "Formulas and Other Ancient Patterns in Iliad, Books 9 and 10" as a Classics Department lecture at the University of Pittsburgh. The lecture was presented in the Indian Nationality Room.
In April, 2000, Edwin Floyd read a paper "The Iliadic Allusions in Demodokos' First Song" at the Spring meeting of CAAS (Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 28-29, 2000.
In May, 2000, Edwin Floyd read a paper "The Persistence of 'Man-Slaying' as an Indo-European formula in Gregory of Nazianzus" at the 12th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.
In August, 2000, Edwin Floyd read a paper "Greek and Avestan parallels for Vedic narasamsa" at ICANAS 36 (36th meeting of the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies), held in Montreal, Canada, August 27 - September 2, 2000.
The following links lead, courtesy of Google, to French newsgroups dealing with Latin and Greek respectively: fr.lettres.langues-anciennes.latin and fr.lettres.langues-anciennes.grec
The following link leads, courtesy of Google, to a German newsgroup dealing with Classical languages and literature: de.etc.sprache.klassisch