Classics on the Net

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Tue Oct 10 15:23:54 EDT 2000


on 10/10/00 5:40 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> . . . any others interested in a downloadable or on-line readable text
> of Homer), it's worth checking out the web-site of Helmuth van Thiel at the
> University of Cologne:
> 
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/vanthiel/
> 
> The text of both epics is there in an easily readable format in
> Roman-letter beta-code equivalents, but any Mac user can download van
> Thiels "Homeric" Truetype font and even a keyboard for it ("homkeys") to be
> able to read either of these texts in easily readable Greek characters but
> without accents or punctuation.

Thanks Carl,

The fact that these texts do NOT contain any special characters allows one
to very quickly create a Homeric Database (took me 20 minutes with
FileMaker). This isn't quite as slick as Persus but it is several orders of
magnitude faster.

Clay



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