Even by the look of him it was plain that he was a son of zeus the book club selection for july is the second. The representation of geographic, archaeological and art historical data poses many of the same issues, whatever the culture at hand. Mar 31, 2014 we are pleased to share the following video featuring anna krohn, a digital library analyst and teaching fellow at tufts university, who explains how to use the perseus digital library website to explore ancient greek texts and study individual words in context. The works attributed to homer include the two oldest and greatest european epic poems, the odyssey and the iliad. In april 20, the perseus digital library joined forces with the open greek and latin project at the university of leipzig. Teaching idea the introductions to the iliad, odyssey and aeneid set the scene for the poems and it is interesting to compare and contrast them, even in translation with students who are only studying latin or neither. This is a draft circulated for comment by the community and to provide a starting point for possible proposals.
Perseus digital library updates news and announcements. It focuses on a quarrel between king agamemnon and. The vivid and gory descriptions of battle contrast with moments of kind and loving behavior, which humanizes many of the fiercest warriors in the iliad. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Iliad, 2, 326, achaeans 9 years to take troy, serpent 9 sparrows. Most relevant lists of abbreviations for pdl perseus digital library. The vein referenced in this passage is an example of literary conceit. To search, please enter your query in the search box above. As you type in search fields, you will see a summary appear right here.
Today only the iliad and odyssey are associated with the name homer. Along with book summaries, it gives a linebyline commentary explaining the historical context of some of homers character phrases, as well as meanings of words that are unfamiliar. Type in any combination of criteria to formulate a new search. Iliad this document search for all inflected forms search for amo returns.
The release is, of course, a first step, but this first step changes the world in at least two fundamental ways. The iliad, provided by project gutenberg possible paper topics. Search for abbreviation meaning, word to abbreviate, or lists of abbreviations. National endowment for the humanities 400 7th street, sw washington, dc 20506. In the iliad, occasional syntactic inconsistency may be an oral tradition effectfor example, aphrodite is laughterloving, despite being painfully wounded by diomedes book v, 375. Perseus digital library the digital classicist wiki. But wolfs relatively brief remarks also paved the way for a competing theory. Much of what wolf himself had said already pointed in this direction. Iliad by homer, 1991, penguin books edition, in english penguin classics ed. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the iliad. The true benefit of a digital library, however, comes not from the replication and enhancement of traditional library functions, but rather in the ability to make possible tasks. Here is a new loeb classical library edition of homers stirring heroic account of the trojan war and its passions. Frequently appearing words that provide less guidance about the contents of a selection will have a low key term score, and the least important words will have a score of zero. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
Perseus digital librarys selection criteria are the epoch and the representativeness of the texts in the sense of being part of canonical world literature. Greek and latin grammars and commentaries are also included. Perseus is the second of the four books in the heroes series, which debuted in the fall of 2004 with the release of. Critical links to key perseustufts ancient greek pages for persons knowledgeable in ancient greek. It made my first reading of the iliad much more easy and enjoyable. These have been published in the loeb classical library for three quarters of a century, the greek text facing a faithful and literate prose translation by a. Books 112 the loeb classical library, no 104 2nd edition. To go directly to a particular text or passage, you can enter a citation in the citation lookup box above. Perseus digital library updates news and announcements from. The project is mirrored by the max planck society in berlin, germany, as well. The numbers in the browse by lists represent not physical volumes but works, the texts seen as artistic creations, for example homers iliad, or livys history of rome.
The iliad and the odyssey, two long epic poems surviving in a surprisingly large number of manuscripts, are ascribed to him. Using perseus digital library, with anna krohn click here to. The digital edition of the perseus digital library, based on that of t. If you are wondering why i have deliberately zeroed in on book ii, the catalogue of ships of homer s iliad, as i am sure you are, wonder no more.
In antiquity, a very large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the homeric hymns, the contest of homer and hesiod, the little iliad, the nostoi, the thebaid, the cypria, the epigoni, the comic miniepic batrachomyomachia the frogmouse war, the margites, the capture of oechalia, and the. An open greek and latin edition of the iliad of athenaeus, consisting of the collected iliadic language of the deipnosophistae. Only book ii alone, the catalogue of ships of homer s iliad, can provide us. Figure 1 illustrates information design as it appears in an important 10th century manuscript of the homeric iliad. The perseus digital library at tufts university will host a twoday workshop that provides an overview of a sample, practical digital editions creation workflow. The above text is provided by the perseus digital library. Our expectation is that leipzig university will post an official rfp at the start of january 2017. The perseus digital library first got on the web in 1995, and has been steadily growing and evolving.
Expanding on wolfs prolegomena, gottfried hermann argued that there was a historical kernel of the iliad composed by homer, and the fame of this poem led to its expansion by other poets over time see 4 5 hermann 1832 and 1840. Mar 01, 2019 the scaife viewer of the perseus project pursues a simple goal. This massive collection includes important greek and latin classics in their original languages. If youd like to immediately browse works, editions, or translations, take a look at the limiting fields to the right. We are pleased to share the following video featuring anna krohn, a digital library analyst and teaching fellow at tufts university, who explains how to use the perseus digital library website to explore ancient greek texts and study individual words in context. The perseus project version 4 also known as perseus hopper is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford and somerville, near boston, in the u. May 30, 2012 the above text is provided by the perseus digital library. Set during the trojan war, the tenyear siege of the city of troy ilium by a coalition of greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the. The road to perseus 5 perseus digital library updates. The writing is often energetic and riveting, as when mccaughrean describes the medusa heads effects on soldiers ranged against perseus. Digital libraries can be an extremely effective method of extending the services of a traditional library by enabling activities such as access to materials outside the physical confines of the library. Iliad, book ii, the catalogue of ships lines 511545. Hector loves and cares deeply for his family while achilles shares a bond of brotherly love with patroclus.
The perseus project also known as the perseus hopper is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford and somerville, near boston, in the u. The perseus digital library is a partner and supporter of open greek and latin, an international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deepreading tools, and opensource software. Agamemnon, king of men, at some other time were it een better that ye be. Customers who viewed this item also viewed these digital items. The works attributed to homer include the two oldest and greatest european epic poems, the odyssey and iliad. Over a century ago, james loeb announced the founding of the loeb classical library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient greek and roman world within the reach of all who care for the finer things in life. In 1993, perseus moved to tufts university where the digital library has lived ever since.
The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources. The scaife viewer of the perseus project pursues a simple goal. Homer, iliad book 19 theoi classical texts library. Words with a high key term score provide an initial guide to important people, places, and concepts in the selected texts. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of achilles, the best of the achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result. The criteria are applied simultaneously to produce a selection list in the middle. The database may be searched using 17 criteria, such as book number, vehicle, tenor, prothesis, and speaker. For the last few years we have been laboring to bring the perseus digital library into the next generation of digital environments, freeing the data it offers for others to easily use, reuse, and improve upon, while continuing to offer highly curated, contextualized and optimized views of the data for the public, students and researchers. Grade 58 this retelling of the myth takes perseus from the oracular pronouncement that he will cause his grandfathers death to the time the hero settles in as king of little tiryns. The persians, seven against thebes, the suppliants, prometheus bound. The animal mistress or mistress of animals is a widespread motif in ancient art from the mediterranean world and the ancient near east, showing a central human, or humanlike, female figure who grasps two animals, one to each side.
Homer, iliad, book 5, line 1 perseus digital library. The annenberg cpbproject provided support for entering this text. Greek text available at the perseus digital library. To see a full list of available texts, leave all fields blank and hit search the texts. History of the parthenon in the perseus historical overview. Knowledge management in the perseus digital library. The perseus project and beyond how building a digital library challenges the humanities and technology. The project is mirrored by the max planck society in berlin. To the ancient greeks, they were a source of moral lessons as. In this paper, we describe the new document delivery and knowledge management tools in the perseus digital library digital libraries can be an extremely effective method of extending the services of a traditional library by enabling activities such as access to materials outside the physical confines of the library 1.
Whether or not homer wrote the iliad and the odyssey, the two works had a profound influence on western culture and education. Digital editions in practice, a twoday workshop may 31june 1, 2019. Meet in the ames library computer lab for a clinic on using the perseus digital library fnt. The manuscript integrates the opening lines of the iliad with multiple categories of explanatory information, including short glosses translations into contemporary language of archaic. The iliad is an ancient greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to homer. Perseus digital library national endowment for the. English translations of these works are available at. Crossreferences in general dictionaries to this page 14 lsj.
A power struggle among the gods both hinders and helps him along the way, and perseus even manages to find true love when he rescues the breathtakingly beautiful princess andromeda from the horrors of a bloodthirsty sea monster. This book is invaluable if you are reading lattimores iliad for the first time. The catalogue of ships lines 459815 in book ii of the iliad is the most reliable source for regressive extrapolation and derivation of archaic greek vocabulary progressively extrapolated into equivalent attested a or derived d mycenaean greek vocabulary, next to the archaic. Over a century ago, james loeb announced the founding of the loeb classical library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient greek and roman world within the reach of. Iliad 10s status as the epics most doubted book with iliad 2 as a close rival, the book least likely to be judged homeric, and the one most frequently avoided among contemporary scholars, makes it particularly revealing of some of the central disagreements and developments in homeric scholarship over the last two centuries.
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