[B-Greek] Alpheios Texts
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Sep 17 12:40:09 EDT 2009
I've just learned (from Mark Goodacre's blog) about another neat multi-
resource interface for reading Greek (and Latin as well) texts on
line, this with a Firefox add-on, called "Alpheios." I cite Mark's
description (from http://www.ntgateway.com/additions-to-greek-software-page/
):
"This is a Mozilla Firefox plugin, currently under development (alpha
stage), which is worth watching. It integrates freely accessible
lexical data (Latin and Greek), mostly from the Perseus database,
into a browser-based text-reading interface: “In our first release we
are illustrating the functionality of the software using specially
enhanced Latin and Greek texts on our own website, and texts without
such enhancements on a few other selected web sites. In the future we
will be providing more enhanced Latin and Greek texts as well as texts
in other languages. We will also be making the basic functionality of
these tools (providing dictionary definitions and grammatical
information) available for use with all texts in standard HTML and
appropriate Unicode encoding on any web site, or on your own
computer.” Currently limited to a few texts, this will be a great tool
once it can handle other html and unicode texts."
Home page for the Alpheios texts is: http://alpheios.net/
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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