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