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Towards a d igital p ublication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships

Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar London, August 15. Towards a d igital p ublication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. Ioannis Doukas (King’s College London). Iliad 2.494-759. 29 contingents 44 leaders 175 named localities about 100,000 men. The Catalogue of Ships:.

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Towards a d igital p ublication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships

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  1. Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar London, August 15 Towardsa digital publicationfor theHomeric Catalogue of Ships Ioannis Doukas (King’s College London)

  2. Iliad 2.494-759 • 29 contingents • 44 leaders • 175 named localities • about 100,000 men

  3. The Catalogue of Ships: • comes from the pre-homeric epic tradition • derives from a source dated in the Mycenaean era • describes the political and geographical reality of this era • does so in the way literary texts do • provides valuable information

  4. Geographical zones • Central Greece, from the Isthmus of Corinth up to Mount Oeta • the Peloponnese • the Ionian Islands and western Greece • the Aegean Sea • Greece north of Mount Oeta.

  5. The Perseus Digital Library

  6. The Chicago Homer

  7. Components of the database • The standard electronic editions of the texts, which were encoded in SGML (standard generalized Markup language) • English and German translations that closely observe the line structure of the originals • A set of tables that support lexical, phrasal, morphological, and narratological searches • A web-based user interface that gives access to the texts and supports queries to the database

  8. The Homer Multitext Project

  9. Homer and the Papyri

  10. “The 3 X’s of the project” • XML • XSLT • XREF

  11. Eumaios

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