Over a century ago, james loeb announced the founding of the loeb classical library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient greek and roman world within the reach of all who care for the finer things in life. After a brief perusal i can say that the translation in this volume is generally helpful and accurate, but i just opened up to the start of book 9 pp. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the trojan war. The iliad books 916 books 916 speak more on the action. The poem is fundamental to the modern western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of western literature, the iliad being the oldest. Perseus digital library national endowment for the. Likewise, an advanced placement latin course might. 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. The following document presents a request for proposals rfp for the scaife digital library viewer. The achaeans, sensing defeat, are panicked and despondent. Perseus has been in existence in various forms for over two decades. Here you can enter a characters name and search only in that characters speech fully implemented in greek texts of tragedy and comedy.
This book begins with the exploits of the greek captain diomedes whom the goddess athena inspires with strength and daring. It is, in part, a sequel to the iliad, the other work ascribed to homer. Dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, london 1873. Meet in the ames library computer lab for a clinic on using the perseus digital library fnt. Homer, iliad, book 9, line 1 perseus digital library. While the first eight books set the scene and background for the epic poem, these eight books focus more on how quickly one side can have the advantage and then have it taken away from them. Athena, seeing ares, the god of war in the battle, takes him by the hand and leads him away. Customers who viewed this item also viewed these digital items. The chicago homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of early greek epic accessible to readers with and without greek.
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 deipnosophistae of athenaeus of naucratis is not only an erudite and literary encyclopedia of a myriad of curiosities about classical. Knowledge management in the perseus digital library. 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. Allen rogers benner, selections from homers iliad, book 9. Book 9, line 4 agamemnon attempts to muster his troops and raise the morale calling zeus a harsh and cruel god. Homer, iliad book 19 theoi classical texts library. Text objects are also handy if you are looking for demosthenes on the crown and dont remember the number of the speech.
Crane in this paper, we describe the new document delivery and knowledge management tools in the perseus digital library. Our expectation is that leipzig university will post an official rfp at the start of january 2017. The iliad is set during the trojan war, the tenyear siege of the city of troy by a coalition of greek kingdoms. Today only the iliad and odyssey are associated with the name homer. Pdl abbreviation stands for perseus digital library. Backend services capture those processes that are available automatically for all textual materials. Book 5 continues the graphic warfare that ends book 4.
Greek and latin grammars and commentaries are also included. Latin text available at the perseus digital library. Perseus digital library updates news and announcements from. It focuses on a quarrel between king agamemnon and the. The iliad books 916 books 916 speak more on the action on. Nothing gets lost in translation in the perseus digital. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of achilles, the best of the achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result. Investigating words with the word study tool this document provides a quick guide on how use the word study tool to investigate dictionary entries and find where words are used in works in the collections of the perseus digital library, followed by a stepbystep example that you can work through. As every classic greek learner should know this is a declinated language so the same word can appear in very. He tells the achaeans that it is time to sail home. If youd like to immediately browse works, editions, or translations, take a look at the limiting fields to the right. 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. Iliad by homer, 1991, penguin books edition, in english penguin classics ed.
What follows are 571 more pages discussing matters of legends, fairy tales, and customs not directly connected to the legend of perseus. Books 9 16 speak more on the action on the battlefield between the achaean and trojan army. This is a draft circulated for comment by the community and to provide a starting point for possible proposals. This action continues the practice of divine intervention begun with zeus dream for agamemnon in book 2.
Check out our revolutionary sidebyside summary and analysis. The perseus digital library at tufts university and the open philology project at the university of leipzig announce plans for the perseus open publication series pops, a new venue for open access and open data publications in any format and in any language that the perseus digital library can support. Perseus digital library office of digital humanities. Troy is referred to as ilius and zeus as jove in the original translation. History of the parthenon in the perseus historical overview. In book 9, the achaeans begin to lose hope on winning the fight. One who is only interested in the legend of perseus can stop reading at page 102. Except for fragments, it contains all the texts of these poems in the original greek.
New translation of the iliad by caroline alexander extract. Of course experienced teachers know that it takes more than just vocabulary to read a language, and especially to read literary language, a point made strongly by. Books 916 speak more on the action on the battlefield between the achaean and trojan army. May 08, 2015 available online at perseus digital library and internet archive. Dive into ancient greece and rome with this evolving digital library of texts, art, and archaeology images. Wrath sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of peleus son. A work can span multiple volumes or a single volume could contain multiple works. Along with the odyssey, the iliad is among the oldest extant works of western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century bc. Ancient texts, translations, grammars, and more logos greek classics research library enriches your study. According to the iliad books xii, xiv, xxii, in the trojan war deiphobus, along with his brother helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed argive wall and killed many, and wounded the achaean hero meriones. He tries to convince the armies that they should retreat to greece, but this time he is in earnest. 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.
Digital editions in practice, a twoday workshop may 31june 1, 2019. Meet in the ames library computer lab for a clinic on using the perseus digital library. Tucked away in the basement of eaton hall at tufts university is the office for the perseus digital library. Here is a new loeb classical library edition of homers stirring heroic account of the trojan war and its passions. Set during the trojan war, the tenyear siege of the city of troy ilium by a coalition of greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the. When in book 9 his friends urge him to return, offering him loot and his girl, briseis. 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. To search, please enter your query in the search box above. Iliad, the loeb classical library 1 of 2 translations. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants. The trojans keep their watch during the night but the greeks are restless because panic has set upon them as crosswinds chop the sea where the fish swarm. Cyberinfrastructure, the scaife digital library and classics in a digital age. Phoenix plays an important role in book 9 of the iliad of homer.
Publius vergilius maro, bucolics, aeneid, and georgics. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the iliad. An xml version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer perseus any modifications you make. The perseus digital library at tufts university will host a twoday workshop that provides an overview of a sample, practical digital editions creation workflow. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. Using perseus digital library, with anna krohn click here to.
The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources. Available online at perseus digital library and internet archive. Iliad 10s status as the epics most doubted book with iliad 2 as a close rival, the book least likely to be judged homeric, and the one most frequently avoided among contemporary scholars, makes it particularly revealing of some of the central disagreements and developments in homeric scholarship over the last two centuries. The works attributed to homer include the two oldest and greatest european epic poems, the odyssey and iliad. To fill in the narrative and thematic gaps between the set books of the iliad. In greek mythology, phoenix was the son of king amyntor, and a king of the dolopians. So i used perseus digital library 3 catalog to access the original classic greek text of the iliad in xml version. This document has no legal standing and makes no promises. Agamemnon summons a meeting of the armies and tearfully declares the war a failure, stating that zeus has entangled me in madness. The perseus digital library is a hypertext resource that allows its users to interact directly with primary and secondary resources in the humanities. He was a prince of troy, and the greatest of priams sons after hector and paris.
Diomedes rises up before the men and criticizes agamemnon, telling him that he may sail if he wishes, but that he will stay and fight the trojans. Online books resources in your library resources in other libraries. Iliad, book 9, lines 4448 unless we have a digital text and structural markup for books and lines of homers iliad. New translation of the iliad by caroline alexander. Moreover, thou art in sooth but young, thou mightest een be my son, my youngest born. In antiquity, a very large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the homeric hymns, the contest of homer and hesiod, the little iliad, the nostoi, the thebaid, the cypria, the epigoni, the comic miniepic batrachomyomachia the frogmouse war, the margites, the capture of oechalia, and the. As a very basic learner of ancient greek i find interesting to do this using the classic greek version of the book. Perseus digital library the digital classicist wiki. It will be recalled that the embassy occurs in the evening. The iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the odyssey, also attributed to homer.