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Bug #2376

Cannot find Thucydides or the Greek version of Aristotle's Poetics? Also, export long works of multiple as a single file?

Added by Jiang Qian over 5 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Start date:
04/28/2019
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Dear Mr. Murphey,

As someone studying Greek on his own, and a longterm user of Perseus, I wish I had found textcritical earlier!

I find your website more responsive and much better designed than the Hopper Perseus (their Scaife viewer is still a work in progress so far). Your ebook export option is extremely useful, too!

As I was browsing through available works, I could not find the Greek text of Thucydides' History of Pelopennisian war (or the English text). It is certainly on Perseus's website, and since you do have Arrian, Polybius, Herodotus and Xenophon's works, I would assume it is a bug that Thucydides' work is not there?

Also, I can see the English version of Aristotle's Poetics but not the Greek version, whereas both are there in Perseus.

Finally, for certain works, such as Plutarch's Lives, there are scores of separate entries in textcritical, one for each lives and one for each comparison. It would be wonderful to be able to all the Lives, or all Plutarch's works, into a single epub or mobi file. Would that be difficult technically? To go through the lives one by one and export them as epub would be quite long and tedious.

Indeed, if there is an option to select and export an author's works into a single epub, that would be extremely helpful!

Thank you for your wonderful and helpful website!

best regards
Jiang

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#1 Updated by Jiang Qian over 5 years ago

Dear Mr. Murphy,

Thank you for your response to my other tickets. I just want to add one small point to my question on missing Thucydides: there is a rather large corpus of Greek text complementary to Perseus, in xml format and many with morphological annotation. Will it be difficult to incorporate them into textcritical? If I am able to successfully build a docker image, would it be possible for I myself to download and incorporate some of these text as sources?

http://opengreekandlatin.github.io/First1KGreek/

Best Regards
Jiang

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