[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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