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• Alpheios Reading and Quiz Tools(currently for Latin, Greek and Arabic)
• Alpheios Translation Alignment Editor
• Alpheios Treebank Editor
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• TEI with Syntax Diagrams
• TEI with Word-Aligned Translation
• TEI XML

• 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
      • Prometheus and the gift of fire

      Grammar required:

      Verbs: present, imperfect, and aorist tenses; present and aorist participles

      Pronouns: relative pronoun

    • Level 3 - Not Difficult
      • Deucalion and Pyrrha and the Flood

      Grammar required:

      Verbs: future tense, mi-verbs, verbs with irregular 2nd aorists (e.g. baino, gignosko, histemi)

      Adjectives: comparison of adjectives

      Participles: genitive absolute

    • Level 4 - Very Do-able
      • Demeter searches for her daughter Persephone
      • Demeter gives Triptolemos the gift of wheat
      • Persephone eats the pomegranate

      Grammar required:

      Verbs: subjunctive mood; future and aorist passive

      Indirect Statement

  • 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 Graeco-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
• Greek-Arabic
  • See also: A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic studies
  • The Poetics of Aristotle
    [editions: Bekker 1837, Badawī 1953; downloaded from The Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies (Mellon Foundation, Harvard, Tufts University) and aligned by Usama Gad]
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    • 4
  • Gregory Nazianzus. Carmen Morale XXX
    [editions: Ullman 1961, pp 77-80; downloaded from The Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies (Mellon Foundation, Harvard, Tufts University) and aligned by Usama Gad]
    • p. 77
    • p. 78
    • p. 79
    • p. 80

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