Plain Text Homer

[sdi]

A little bit of a weird one, today: I have compiled digitized versions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. These are UTF-8 plaintext files, consisting of the book number (2 digits), followed by a period, followed by the line number (3 digits), followed by a tab, followed by the line of the text (in Epic Greek). It is meant to make it easy for me to look up specific lines from the texts using standard UNIX tools (e.g. grep) for a future project. Being faithful reproductions of a work several thousand years old, these are obviously in the public domain.

I can't imagine anyone but myself is super interested in these, but on the off chance you are, have fun?

Comments

[jprussell]

I don't have any immediate use for this, but as a plaintext afficionado who has done some similar arrangements, I appreciate the effort and the utility, so thank you!

Jeff

[sdi]

You bet!

[boccaderlupo]

Very cool.

[sdi]

In case anybody has already downloaded it, I've found several missing lines from the Iliad. Four lines from book 8, four lines from book 9, one line from book 11, and one line from book 14. They're fixed now.

[sdi]

I also checked the Odyssey. My version has 12,110 lines, which is one more than Wikipedia says the Odyssey has; but I've checked my version against both Perseus and The Chicago Homer, and they agree with me on the length of each book. I'm not sure of the cause of the discrepancy.