Towards a digital publicationfor the
Homeric Catalogue of Ships
Ioannis Doukas
(King’s College London)
Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar
London, August 15
Iliad 2.494-759
• 29 contingents
• 44 leaders
• 175 named localities
• about 100,000 men
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
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.
The Perseus Digital Library
The Chicago Homer
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
The Homer Multitext Project
Homer and the Papyri
“The 3 X’s of the project”
• XML
• XSLT
• XREF
Eumaios
