Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships Ioannis Doukas (King’s College London) Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar London, August 15
Iliad 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