Read the Iliad
Twenty-four books of Homeric Greek with English letters and Butler beside each five-line group.
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Paste up to 500 words of Homeric Greek, one verse per line, and see a scholarly Latin transcription beside it. For the complete poems, open the Iliad or the Odyssey above.
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Facing verses
Verses will appear here in paragraphs of five, Greek beside English letters.
Scholarly Latin letters: ē/ō for eta and omega, ch/ph/th, and h for rough breathing. Line numbers mark every fifth verse, as in printed Homer.
Read the Odyssey
The wanderings of Odysseus in the same facing layout, from the proem to the last book.
Open the OdysseyHow the letters work
Ē and ō for long vowels, h for rough breathing, and ï where Homer marks diaeresis. Written for this site, not copied from a textbook.
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