a presentation of Homer with aids, made with open-source software

I’ve completed a presentation of the Iliad and Odyssey with aids:

https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ransom/src/master/README.md

It’s similar to the Project Perseus presentation (and makes use of the Perseus treebank), but differs in various ways, such as being printer-friendly. It’s available under the same license as Wikipedia, and the software used to build it is also open source, so other people are free to modify it or build on it.

In connection with this project, I’ve written some open-source software libraries that may be of interest to other people. One of them is Ifthimos, a library for inflection and morphological analysis of ancient Greek:

https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ifthimos/src/master/README.md

If you scroll down in the README file, there is a table giving a comparison of Ifthimos with some other open-source software that does similar things.

Wonderful achievement, Ben!
I would very much like to congratulate you, but I prefer to leave that to specialists; instead, I thank you very much for this. I shall surely be one of the faithful users of your work.

You know, I had sort of written off Homeric Greek as a project for another lifetime, thinking that my primary interests (which are philosophical) would be more than enough of a challenge to work my up to reading, and that all the effort of trying to get into Homer on top of that would be impossible. Flipping through these, I feel like it might not be too much, after all—and I suppose that’s pretty high praise.

I’ve downloaded these and will try putting your work through it’s paces once my studies are far enough along to admit it!

It is a great contribution. Unfortunately the works of Homer in their original language have been reserved for scholars, I hope that works of this type appear so that more people can read the most important epics of the Hellenic world easily.

Loebs of Homer have been out for over a century (1919 for the Odyssey, 1924 for the Iliad), and there exist numerous other texts that give a translation + the original text or an interlinear version. We also have plenty of student editions. Homer’s Greek hasn’t been “reserved for scholars” in your whole lifetime.