Balisage Paper: Scholia 2026: DIY study aids with TEI, XProc, browser and printer
August 3 - 7, 2026
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2026-Piez-presentation-pdf.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF
Alpheios, https://alpheios.net/. Online assisted reader including Iliad and Odyssey renditions.
Crane, Gregory R. (ed). Perseus Digital Library, https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/. Tufts University.
Diogenes, https://d.iogen.es/. Online assisted reader.
Digital Classicist Wiki, https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Main_Page. With links to resources including data sets and tools.
Homer Multitext project, https://www.homermultitext.org/. Digital transcriptions and encoding of extant manuscripts.
Kahane, Ahuvia, Martin Mueller, Craig Berry, Bill Perod (2000). The Chicago Homer, https://homer.library.northwestern.edu/. Pioneering assisted reader including Iliad and Odyssey passages.
Logeion, https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ at UChicago. Online lexicon of Ancient Greek.
Perseus Beyond Translation Reader (open to Iliad), https://beyond-translation.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1-sentences:1.s1-1.s6.
Perseus Scaife Viewer. Open Greek and Latin Perseus Digital Library. https://scaife.perseus.org/.
Sententiae Antiquae (blog). All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading
Homer’s Iliad
(blog post October 25, 2025).
https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/25/all-the-epic-rage-free-tools-for-reading-homers-iliad/.
A review of some Homer Iliad resources.
Hypotactic.com, https://hypotactic.com/homer/iliad1.html. Iliad scansion tool.
Text Encoding Initiative, https://tei-c.org/.
Marano, Giuseppe, et al. The Neuroscience Behind Writing: Handwriting vs.
Typing – Who Wins
the Battle?
Life (Basel): 2025 Feb 22;15(3):345. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/life15030345.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/.