In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to. Homer, odyssey, book 6, line 1 perseus digital library. In 1993, perseus moved to tufts university where the digital library has lived ever since. The poem is the story of odysseus, king of ithaca, who wanders for 10 years although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks trying to get. May 30, 2012 the above text is provided by the perseus digital library. See the cltks docs for instructions on how to use these files perseuss corpora are distrubuted under the creative commons sharealike 3. Greek text available at the perseus digital library. Perseus project texts loaded under philologic final season for philologic 3, summer 2018. Joseph brodsky published the poem odysseus to telemachus in 1972. It has published two cdroms and established the perseus digital library on the world wide web in 1995. This massive collection includes important greek and latin classics in their original languages. Homer, the odyssey with an english translation by a. The first four books of the odyssey focus on telemachuss journeys in search of news about his father, who has yet to return home from the trojan war.
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. Late in 2016, we published plans for leipzig to publish a request for proposals to begin work on what could be viewed as a new version of perseus something we have been calling perseus 5. 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 odyssey by homer, part of the internet classics archive. The perseus digital library first got on the web in 1995, and has been steadily growing and evolving. Corpus of ancient vases cva rss feed powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates. The scope of each component is visualized in a word count per text collection graph showing that after classics 68 million words, 19th century american 58 million words and rich times dispatch issues 19. Meet in the ames library computer lab for a clinic on using the perseus digital library fnt. Odyssey, the odyssey of homer rendered into english prose for the use of those who cannot read the original revised by timothy power and gregory nagy 1 of 5 translations. 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. Telemachus was the name of carole kings cat and is pictured on the cover of her album tapestry. George dimock now brings the loebs odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains murrays admirable style but. A library of materials pertaining to ancient greece, which is expanding to include resources on ancient rome. The university of texas at austin, 2015 supervisor.
These texts have long stood in the loeb classical library with a faithful and literate prose translation by a. History of the parthenon in the perseus historical overview. The homeric hymns are a collection of thirtythree anonymous ancient greek hymns celebrating individual gods. Includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources. Using perseus digital library, with anna krohn click here to. Homer, odyssey, book 1, line 1 perseus digital library. Homer, odyssey book 4 theoi classical texts library. Perseus is the second of the four books in the heroes series, which debuted in the fall of 2004 with the release of. Telemachus is a figure in greek mythology, the son of odysseus and penelope, and a central character in homers odyssey. Search for abbreviation meaning, word to abbreviate, or lists of abbreviations.
In april 20, the perseus digital library joined forces with the open greek and latin project at the university of leipzig. The initial version of the scaife digital library viewer must support searching and reading of the open greek and latin collection within a new version of perseus perseus 5. On march 15, eldarion released the initial version of the scaife digital library viewer. Perseus digital library updates news and announcements from.
Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient greek poet homer. As perseus project, aa perseus digital library is a projekt zum afbau vo ana frein digitaln bibliothek. The hymns are homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meterdactylic hexameteras the iliad and odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. The odyssey is one of two major ancient greek epic poems attributed to homer. Telemachus is a frequent character in the poetry of louise gluck. The perseus project and beyond how building a digital library challenges the humanities and technology. 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. This repository holds the greek files made available by the perseus project. Customers who bought this item also bought these digital items. Perseus under philologic, contains many of the perseus greek and latin texts, served by a different mechanism for browsing and searching the text, and with somewhat different aims.
National endowment for the humanities 400 7th street, sw washington, dc 20506. Look at the perseus digital library link and read their statement of purpose on the right hand side of the page in the rectangle. King alcinous and queen arete rule the seafaring phaeacians on the island of scheria. Greek and latin grammars and commentaries are also included. I am rather intrigued by this ball dance and its possible. They then passed between the sixheaded monster scylla and the whirlpool. Odyssey, the odyssey of homer rendered into english prose for the use of those who cannot read the original revised by timothy power and gregory nagy. The odyssey has been divided into the following sections.
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. To search, please enter your query in the search box above. This is reminiscent of the openings of ancient greek works such as homers odyssey5 and hesiods theogony6, in which they call on the muses to do the same. The telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the odyssey, corresponding to book 24, are. Homer, odyssey book 6 theoi classical texts library. These dwelt of old in spacious hypereia hard by the cyclopes, men overweening in pride who plundered them continually and were mightier than. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the enter key is pressed. The project is mirrored by the max planck society in berlin. George dimock now brings the loebs odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains murrays admirable style but is worded for todays readers.
The release is, of course, a first step, but this first step changes the world in at least two fundamental ways. Perseus digital library national endowment for the. The above text is provided by the perseus digital library. 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 poem is the story of odysseus, king of ithaca, who wanders for 10 years although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks trying to get home after the trojan war. Logos research libraries combine premier scholarly tools with interconnected digital libraries, tools, and media. The morning after odysseus rugged landing, athena disguised as a friend sends their daughter, nausicaa, and some of her handmaidens to wash clothes near the spot where the beleaguered hero. Perseus digital librarys selection criteria are the epoch and the representativeness of the texts in the sense of being part of canonical world literature. The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources. The phaiakian people are assembled and the feast begins.
Homeric hymns project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. The twovolume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index. Digital loeb classical library an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in greek and latin literature. Others relate that he was induced by athena to marry circe, and became by her the father. Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient greek poet. Nevertheless, perseus is a valuable resource for more general studies of history and historical methods both for the range of information it presents and for the tools it provides. Perseus digital library the digital classicist wiki.
Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. The first four books of the odyssey focus on telemachuss journeys in search. Nassos papalexandrou though the episode is well known from book 11 of the odyssey 11. A collaborative, digital library of latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the neolatinists of the eighteenth century. Its been a while since we released an official update, but here it is, thanks to indefatigable wrangling of c, perl, apache and many other arcana this summer by walt shandruk. Telemakhos, literally farfighter is a figure in greek mythology, the son of odysseus and penelope, and a central character in homers odyssey. 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. If youd like to immediately browse works, editions, or translations, take a look at the limiting fields to the right. Telemachus is the title of book three of thomas wolfes autobiographical novel of time and the river 1935. This is reminiscent of the openings of ancient greek works such as homers odyssey5. 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. The works attributed to homer include the two oldest and greatest european epic poems, the odyssey and iliad. Books 112 the loeb classical library, no 104 2nd edition. Summary and analysis books 68 odysseus among the phaeacians.