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[1] From: "Martin Mueller" <martinmueller@northwestern.edu> (49)
Subject: Improved version of Chicago Homer
[2] From: John Unsworth <unsworth@uiuc.edu> (34)
Subject: PMC 13.3 available
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:23:21 +0100
From: "Martin Mueller" <martinmueller@northwestern.edu>
Subject: Improved version of Chicago Homer
An improved version of The Chicago Homer is now available at
www.library.northwestern.edu/homer.
The Chicago Homer is a bilingual database that uses the search and display
capabilities of the digital surrogate to make distinctive features of Early
Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In particular, the
"digital page" of the Chicago Homer makes repetitions visible. It is a
fundamental insight of twentieth-century scholarship that the Homeric poems
are rooted in a tradition of oral verse making and that every hexametric
line is shot through with idiomatic phrases that resonate in the listener's
memory. For the modern reader these resonances are not easy to hear, but in
any "page" of the Chicago Homer you can see just what is repeated, and links
from any visible repetition let you navigate the neural networks of bardic
memory. This is true even for readers who cannot read Greek: since they can
see that something is repeated, they can follow the web of translations via
interlinear translations.
The Chicago Homer also includes a complete morphological description of
every word occurrence in terms of the appropriate categories of tense, mood,
voice, case, gender, person, and number. These morphological criteria can be
combined with narrative, locational or frequency-based criteria and let you
look for unknown words and phrases that meet specified conditions, such as
accusative neuter plural adjectives, nouns in the speech of female
goddesses, words that occur once in the Iliad and once in the Odyssey,
phrases that are repeated more than a dozen times, are three words long and
contain the name "Achilleus", occur in Iliad 16 and 22, but nowhere else,
and so forth.
The texts and associated data tables of the Chicago Homer are based on
standard electronic texts and include the Iliad, the Odyssey, Hesiod's
Theogony and Works and Days, the Homeric Hymns, and the pseudo-Hesiodic
Shield of Herakles.
The Chicago Homer includes Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad,
Daryl Hine's translations of the Theogony, Works and Days, and Homeric
Hymns, and the 18th century German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by
Johann Heinrich Voss. It does not at the moment include an English
translation of the Odyssey.
The Chicago Homer is associated with the still experimental Eumaios site,
which includes access to the Iliad scholia in Hartmut Erbse's edition and to
Dana Sutton's list of papyri, now maintained by the Center for Hellenic
Studies. Wherever there is a papyrus reading or scholion for a Homeric
line, a hyperlink in the margin of the Chicago Homer puts it immediately at
hand with a single click. For the Homer scholia, this means that for the
first time since the medieval manuscripts and earliest printed texts they
have regained their status as true marginalia, albeit in a digital manner.
All the functionalities of the Chicago Homer work with Mozilla 1.3 or
Netscape 7.1 on Windows and Macintosh OS 10.2 computers, with Internet
Explorer on Windows NT or later, and with the Safari browser on OS 10.2.
Some routines do not work dependably on earlier browser/OS combinations.
Transliterated Greek can be displayed on any browser, but the display of
Greek characters requires a browser with a Unicode (UTF-8) font that
includes the extended Greek character set.
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:24:20 +0100
From: John Unsworth <unsworth@uiuc.edu>
Subject: PMC 13.3 available
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