English-Homer

Corpus XML Schema

A Custom Minimal Structure Based on TEI

The Homer Living Network project incorporates multiple translations with XML structure. The schema follows guidelines from TEI 2.0 in a minimal implementation that will be gradually expanded throughout the project. An updated list of structured translations will be regularly published here.

Translations Included in the First Phase of the Study

Title Text Author Year Period Span Verse Publisher Edition Source Language Country Reception
Odyssey 1 Georges Chapman 1615 Renaissance <1700 TRUE First Gutemberg English England Positive  
Odyssey 1 John Ogilby 1665 Renaissance <1700              
Odyssey 1 Thomas Hobbes 1675 Renaissance <1700              
Odyssey 1 Alexander Pope 1725 Enlightenment <1820              
Odyssey 1 William Cowper 1791 Enlightenment <1820              
Odyssey 1 H.F. Cary 1823 Enlightenment <1820              
Odyssey 1 William Sotheby 1834 Enlightenment <1820              
Odyssey 1 Theodore Alois Buckley 1851 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 1 P. S. Worsley 1861 Victorian <1900 TRUE Edinburgh, W. Blackwood & Sons First English England Positive  
Odyssey 0 Dr. Giles 1861 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 0 Thomas Starling Norgate 1862 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 1 William Cullen Bryant 1871 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 1 Samuel Henry Butcher / Andrew Lang 1879 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 0 George Herbert Palmer 1886 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 0 Willliam Morris 1887 Victorian <1900              
Odyssey 0 Samuel Butler 1900 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 Henry Bernard Cotterill 1911 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 Augustus Taber Murray 1919 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 T.E. Lawrence 1932 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 E.V. Rieu 1945 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 1 Robert Fitzgerald 1961 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 Richmond Lattimore 1965 Modernist <1970              
Odyssey 0 Walter Shawring 1980 Modernist <1970 prose            
Odyssey 0 Allen Mandelbaum 1990 Contemporary >1971 blank verse            
Odyssey 0 Brian Kemball-Cook 1993 Contemporary >1971              
Odyssey 1 Robert Fagles 1996 Contemporary >1971              
Odyssey 0 Stanley Lombardo 2000 Contemporary >1971 verse            
Odyssey 1 Emily Wilson 2017 Contemporary >1971              
Odyssey 0 Peter Green 2018 Contemporary >1971              
Odyssey 0     Contemporary >1971              

The XML Minimal Schema

The schema includes:

Examples:

Bibliographical:

<TEI>
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title>The Odyssey</title>
        <translator>Translator Name</translator>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Publisher</publisher>
        <date>Year</date>
      </publicationStmt>
    </fileDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <!-- Content here -->
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>

Books:

<div type="book" n="1">
  <head>Book 1</head>
  <p>Text content...</p>
</div>

Character’s epithets:

<seg type="epithet" character="athena">grey-eyed Athena</seg>
<seg type="metaphor" subtype="sea">like waves breaking on a distant shore</seg>
<placeName>Ithaca</placeName>
<persName>Penelope</persName>

Episodes:

<div type="episode" n="1">
  <head>Odysseus Meets Nausicaa</head>
  <speaker>Odysseus</speaker>
  <listPerson>
    <person>Odysseus</person>
    <person>Nausicaa</person>
  </listPerson>
  <note type="subject">First encounter and supplication</note>
  <milestone unit="book" n="6"/>
  <milestone unit="line" n="85-315" ed="Greek"/>
  <p>Text of the episode...</p>
</div>
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