Life of Demonax (Lucian of Samosata, Second Century CE)
στάσεως δέ ποτε Ἀθήνησι γενομένης εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ φανεὶς μόνον σιωπᾶν ἐποίησεν αὐτούς· ὁ δὲ ἰδὼν ἤδη μετεγνωκότας οὐδὲν εἰπὼν καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπηλλάγη.
Once when the Athenians had collapsed into political discord, he went to the assembly and just by appearing, brought them to silence. When he saw they had relented, he excused himself without a word.
(Lucian, Life of Demonax)
On this site
- Scholia 2026 Reader - experimental design of a dynamic reading interface for intermediate-level students of Ancient Greek. The technology stack is based on TEI XML to support structured authoring and editing of text, translation and glosses. The approach works with any languages supported by Unicode.
- A PDF version of the developer's English translation (only) is laid out for the page.
The translation and notes are by the developer, and any errors are mine. I also contributed the sectioning and section titles. Especially if you have corrections or suggestions for improvement, please provide feedback in the site repository.
The source text is derived from Perseus.org by way of the Scaife Reader XML download feature, which delivers TEI XML. Any corrections or improvements to these texts, along with enhancements (in the form of glosses or translation) are hereby offered back.
On the web
- The Scaife Reader interface to the Perseus text of Demonax may represent the state of the art in interactive readers.
- An amazing resource for the student: The Lucian of Samosata Project.
Homer Scriptorium exercises - ILIAD
A rendering of the Iliad Venetus A Manuscript, broken into line groups
(squibs
) corresponding to paragraphs in the 1924 translation by A. T. Murray.
1137 pages are available covering all 24 books (15639 lines) of the epic.
Both source texts are in the public domain. These copies were derived from the Homer Multitext Project in the case of the Venetus A (with fabulous TEI encoding); and for the Murray translation theoi.com, a resource about Greek and Roman antiquity.
Only one error in alignment has been found so far; these can be corrected.
Online Iliad
- Logeion at UChicago - awesome resource
- Scaife Greek Vocabulary tool set to the Iliad
- Book I 1-25 in the beyond-translation reader
- The Chicago Homer (Kahane, Mueller, Berry, Parod)
How to use the squibs
The squibs are designed for an exercise in language and literature study described below, the Scholia Method. Print one page or many. At fifteen lines a day the entire Iliad can be copied in less than three years.
Preview your print job, resetting page size, orientation and scaling options for best
results. A landscape setting can work well. A scratch pad
image in the footer helps
to prevent crowding on a single page; an unwanted final page can be omitted from
printing.
Scholia Method
The Scholia Method is an adaptation of the Scriptorium Technique for language study, developed by Alexander Arguelles and popularized on line.
The Scholia Method supplements Scriptorium with an additional step: prior to transcription of a text under study (the essence of Scriptorium), we annotate a printed copy with whatever notes or glosses are helpful for understanding, retention, and later reference. A squib facilitates this: it requires completion, like a coloring book, except using letters, words and language, not shapes and colors. (Or shapes and colors too.)
Also by the developer
- The XProc Zone, a set of XProc demonstration and documentation projects.
- Pellucid Literature - more experiments using different production methods (all XML-based)
- XML Jelly Sandwich demonstrations - XSLT in the browser using SaxonJS. Includes among others:
- An I Ching engine
- EVE, the Electronic Verse Engineer
- Print your own Ancient Greek Vocabulary flashcards
- My business home page (due for refurb)