Alpheios Latin, Greek, and Arabic Enhanced Texts

The goal of the Alpheios project is to help people learn how to learn languages as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, and in a way that best helps them understand their own literary heritage and culture, and the literary heritage and culture of other peoples throughout history.

Our initial focus will be on classical literature in languages no longer spoken, such as Latin and ancient Greek. The influence of these classics, like the river Alpheios, still runs like a subterranean stream deep beneath the contemporary world, as artists and thinkers continue to draw inspiration from them.

We hope that Alpheios will eventually include a wide variety of languages, ancient and modern. By utilizing contemporary technology that is both flexible and adaptive, Alpheios should make language learning both easier and more immediately rewarding. By sharing these tools and the source code in which they are written freely on the Web, the Alpheios Project also hopes to encourage their collaborative development.

The software is currently in Beta release, with all the caveats normally associated with that level of development.

Alpheios Texts

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• TEI with Translation
• TEI XML

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• Latin
  • Ovid
    • Metamorphoses - Selections from Book 1
  • Sextus Propertius
    • Elegies - Book 1, Poem 1
    • Elegies - Book 1, Poem 2
• Greek
  • Aeschylus
    • Agamemnon
    • Libation Bearers
    • Persians
    • Prometheus Bound
    • Seven Against Thebes
    • Suppliant Women
  • Apollodorus: Myths from Library and Epitome
    (Grading and grammatical requirements per Cornell College)
    • Level 2 - Pretty Easy
    • Level 3 - Not Difficult
    • Level 4 - Very Do-able
  • Babrius: Fables from Aesop
    (Grading and grammatical requirements per Cornell College)
    • Level 1 - Easiest
      • The Fox and The Grapes
      • Heracles and The Ox-Driver
      • The Lion and The Mouse
      Grammar required:

      Nouns: all cases, first declension, second declension, third declension, masc & fem, neuter
      Verbs: present tense, active and middle; present imperatives
      Pronouns: personal pronouns, interrogatives
  • Hesiod
    • Theogeny
    • Shield of Heracles
  • Homer
    • Odyssey - Book 1 (with aligned translation)
    • Odyssey - Books 2-24
    • Iliad
  • Sophocles
    • Ajax
• Arabic
  • Arabic Reading Lessons
    [Duncan Forbes LL.D. London. Wm. H. Allen & Co. 1864.]
  • The Autobiography Of The Constantinopolitan Story-Teller
    [Joseph Catafago. London. Bernard Quartich. 1877.]
  • Selection From The Annals Of Tabari
    [ed. by. M. J. de Goeje. Leiden. Late E.J. Brill. 1902.] Passages from the work of one of the greatest Islamic historians, Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, 838-923.
  • Selections from Arabic geographical literature
    [Edited with notes by M. J. de Goeje. Leiden. Late E.J. Brill. 1907]
  • See also: A digital corpus for Greco-Arabic studies
  • al-Aghani (Book of Songs)
    [Misr Matba'at al-Taqdim. 1905.] Compiled by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani in the tenth century. A vast collection of poems, ranging from the earliest period to his own and including invaluable biographical notices.
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
    • Volume 5
    • Volume 6
    • Volume 7
    • Volume 8
    • Volume 9
    • Volume 10
    • Volume 11
    • Volume 12
  • Arabian Nights
    [Bulak. 1863. Bulak. 1935.] Compiled over many centuries by many hands.
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
  • Voyages of Ibn Batuta
    [C. Defrémery et Le Dr. B. M. Sanguinetti. Paris. Imprimerie Nationale. 1879.] A remarkably comprehensive survey of the world in the mid-fourteenth century by the great traveller Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, 1304-1369.
    • Volume 4