RAMUS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE

RAMUS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE

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Submissions should be directed to either of the Editors at the addresses given on the information page.

Please note that no responsibility can be accepted for unsolicited material.

When submitting articles to this journal, authors are requested to observe the following conventions:

1. Material should be supplied both in hard copy and by e-mail as an attachment. The hard copy should be double spaced and on one side of the paper only. The preferred format for the electronic version is Miscrosoft Word for Macintosh.

Greek quotations should be in Linguist's Software Inc's SymbolGreek, or failing that Graecall or SuperGreek. The text of the hard copy should contain no indication of the identity of the author.

2. The first line of a new paragraph should be indented 4 mm and no spaces should be left between paragraphs.

3. Quotation marks should be single, not double, and should be in 'smart quote' format (i.e. with proper open and close quotes, not the indiscriminate vertical marks that html condemns one to!).

4. Extended quotations from primary or secondary material should be typed single-spaced, indented 1 cm on both rh and lh margins with no additional indentation at the beginning and no quotation marks. Quotations from Greek should be in Greek script (employing one of the fonts specified in para. 1 above); quotations in Latin should be in normal Roman script (not italics) and follow the orthography of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (i.e. 'i' and 'u' rather than 'j' and 'v' - 'V' in upper case, however). Upper case letters in both Latin and Greek should be used only for the initial letters of proper nouns, not for the beginning of sentences or paragraphs.

5. Short quotations within the body of the text should follow the same orthographical rules. Short quotations from Greek should be in Greek script; short quotations from Latin should be in italics. ('Short quotations' includes single words.)

6. Both extended and short quotations from classical writers must be accompanied by translations, which should be the author's own. In the case of indented quotes, the translations should be similarly indented, typed single-spaced without brackets or quotation marks and placed immediately beneath the Greek or Latin quotation. For verse, line-by-line translation is preferred, but prose will be accepted. The source-reference should come after the quotation and be aligned with the indented rh margin:

Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi

siluestrem tenui Musam meditaris auena.

(Virg. Ecl. 1.1f.)

Tityrus, you lie beneath spread of sheltering beech,

Studying the woodland Muse on a thin oat-straw.

In the case of short quotations, the translation (enclosed in quotation marks) should come immediately after the quotation in the brackets where one would normally find the source-reference. For example: arma uirumque cano ('I sing of arms and the man', Virg. Aen. 1.1); kth'ma ej" ajeiv ('a possession for all time', Thuc. 1.22.4).

7. Greek names should either be fully transliterated or fully Latinised (e.g. Klutaimestra or Clytemnestra, Aias or Ajax, Aiskhulos or Aeschylus, Thoukudides or Thucydides), and whichever convention is adopted should be maintained throughout.

8. Notes should be consecutively numbered throughout the article and located at the end of the text.

Please use the 'insert footnote' facility on your word-processor to create these notes. The reference number should be followed by a period and the first line of each note (including the number) should be indented 4 mm. There should be no space between notes.

9. When citing a modern work in the notes for the first time, full bibliographical details should be given according to the normal conventions for books and articles. Examples (please note the punctuation):

A.J. Boyle, The Chaonian Dove: Studies in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil (Leiden 1986), 21-26.

J.L. Penwill, 'The Ending of Sense: Death as Closure in Lucretius Book 6', Ramus 25 (1996), 146-69, at 157.

For second and subsequent citations, the following abbreviated form should be used: Boyle (n.2 above), 135; Penwill (n.5 above), 148-50.

Para evitar a, b, c ATENCIN: Woodman (n.2 above, Amateur Dramatics), 107f.

10. Periodical titles cited in the notes should be abbreviated as in L'Anne Philologique.

Abbreviations for authors and titles of classical works should normally be on a 'first syllable' basis for authors and 'first syllable' or 'acronym' basis for titles, with no comma between author and title: Virg. Aen. 1.246-48; Lucr. DRN 5.1076f. The important things here are consistency and absence of ambiguity.

11. Page, line, chapter etc. numbers should be inclusive. The vague '24ff.' should be avoided as far as possible in favour of precise citation. If the quotation comprises only two pages or lines use '1076f.' in preference to '1076-77'.