Greek Learner Texts Project

Greek Learning Greek
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I just came across this and thought it looked interesting: https://greek-learner-texts.org/

They have a bunch of different texts in different dialects (mainly koine and Attic?), and different texts are in different stages of completion. Here’s a text that seems to be complete: https://fergusjpwalsh.github.io/heyden-formulae/ Everything is open source/free information.

The leading personality seems to be James Tauber, who has written a bunch of open-source python software relating to ancient Greek:

greek-accentuation - https://github.com/jtauber/greek-accentuation
vocabulary-tools - https://github.com/jtauber/vocabulary-tools/blob/master/examples.rst
greek-inflexion - https://github.com/jtauber/greek-inflexion
greek-normalisation - https://github.com/jtauber/greek-normalisation
greek-lemma-mappings - https://github.com/jtauber/greek-lemma-mappings
greek-utils - https://github.com/jtauber/greek-utils

Some of this functionality looks like stuff that I’ve implemented myself in ruby – if I’d known about his work, I probably could have avoided reinventing the wheel in many cases.

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Ah! I’m sorry not to have made the connection with your work, bc, as I have known about J Tauber’s work for some time.

I would recommend Tauber’s blog on Greek/linguistics/dig. humanities. It hasn’t seen new material for since 2020, but I worked through his “Tour of Greek Morphology” whilst he was writing it and found it illuminating.

On the Greek Learner Texts Project (same link as you have in your post), there is an invite for interested collaborators to work on the project together on Slack. I did join at the start of 2020, though got cold feet with a lack of knowledge of Slack, dig. humanities, and generally unaware of how to help out. I haven’t checked in on the project for some time. But I would recommend joining, and I’d be interested in reengaging myself, if you’d like to work on the project with some company!

Also, you will find among our numbers here on Textkit, Fergus, one of the contributors to the GLTP, whose work is very good in the same area.