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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by sturakov »

tmshapland wrote: post #30

I'm always surprised to see that a large enough portion of the HN community are interested in classics that posts like this make it to the front page. Who are you all? What are you doing here? My undergrad was in classics and viticulture, then did grad school in atmospheric science, which led me to tech and hackernews. How did you get here?

I grew up with an awareness of Greek and Latin as part of western heritage education.

A lot of role playing games, especially from Square Enix,leverage a lot of Latin and classical education.

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by nephihaha »

tmshapland wrote: post #30

I'm always surprised to see that a large enough portion of the HN community are interested in classics that posts like this make it to the front page. Who are you all? What are you doing here? My undergrad was in classics and viticulture, then did grad school in atmospheric science, which led me to tech and hackernews. How did you get here?

I think the answer is that the past is as relevant as the future. If people here know both computer programming and classical history, I think that means they have a more rounded view of the world. (The problem in my part of the world, unfortunately is that classical education has often been class based.)

The thing that strikes me from ancient texts is not the obvious differences from our day, but the similarities.

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by nephihaha »

smithkl42 wrote: post #28

Love this. The way the Greek is displayed isn't very helpful, though. Specifically, any vowel with a grave accent displays the accent as a separate letter, which makes it very distracting to read. I don't think it's a problem with the encoding, as I can copy the inline text and it displays just fine - though with some weird spaces before commas or periods: ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ ἦν ὁ λόγος , καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν , καὶ θεὸς…

I recognise that quote. :) But am I right in noticing a lack of breathings? Unless the tilde indicates it. I'm not sure of the difference between the acutes and graves here. I am used to seeing only one kind of accent on ancient Greek vowels.

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

tmshapland wrote: post #30

I'm always surprised to see that a large enough portion of the HN community are interested in classics that posts like this make it to the front page. Who are you all? What are you doing here? My undergrad was in classics and viticulture, then did grad school in atmospheric science, which led me to tech and hackernews. How did you get here?

Practicing Roman Catholic family with liberal arts education

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by milkcrate »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #27
flats wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering the same thing —Perseus has been around since _1987_ & seems to have more features? I guess this is a bit more attractively laid out…

Note that Perseus considers itself end-of-life; there is an analogous project that's supposed to have succeeded it, but I don't remember what project that is.

It's called Scaife[1] and it's borderline unusable. Slows to an absolute crawl on my ~2020 machine within a few minutes, and the viewing experience is very uncomfortable. I'd be really surprised if people preferred it to Perseus.

[1]: https://scaife.perseus.org/

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by milkcrate »

nephihaha wrote: post #33
smithkl42 wrote: post #28

Love this. The way the Greek is displayed isn't very helpful, though. Specifically, any vowel with a grave accent displays the accent as a separate letter, which makes it very distracting to read. I don't think it's a problem with the encoding, as I can copy the inline text and it displays just fine - though with some weird spaces before commas or periods: ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ ἦν ὁ λόγος , καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν , καὶ θεὸς…

I recognise that quote. :) But am I right in noticing a lack of breathings? Unless the tilde indicates it. I'm not sure of the difference between the acutes and graves here. I am used to seeing only one kind of accent on ancient Greek vowels.

Could vary by text? I see breathing marks in Homer.

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Post by sfRattan »

tmshapland wrote: post #30

I'm always surprised to see that a large enough portion of the HN community are interested in classics that posts like this make it to the front page. Who are you all? What are you doing here? My undergrad was in classics and viticulture, then did grad school in atmospheric science, which led me to tech and hackernews. How did you get here?

Latin in school from 6th grade onward. And a classical education with many holes and gaps that I am continually filling in.

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by lsb »

lr4444lr wrote: post #4
lsb wrote: post #3

Neat! Similar to my graduate thesis, NoDictionaries: https://nodictionaries.com/cato/de-agri-cultura/156

Nice. May I point out that in "Crudam si edes, in acetum intinguito", that "edes" is more likely to be the future of edere/esse "to eat"? (Just guessing by context.)

Fixed!
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