# World Classics

A scholarly, accessible digital edition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, presenting complete modern reading editions in English, Spanish, French, German, and Ancient Greek, alongside eight public-domain English reference translations.

## Corpus Scope
- Total Epics: 2 (The Iliad, The Odyssey)
- Total Books: 48 (24 Iliad, 24 Odyssey)
- Greek Source Lines: 27,794 (15,687 Iliad + 12,107 Odyssey)
- Source Editions: Perseus Digital Library TEI XML (tlg0012.tlg001, tlg0012.tlg002)

## Editions Available
- Modern English (en): Complete line-accurate reading edition in modern prose
- Modern Spanish (es): Complete Spanish reading edition from Greek source
- Modern French (fr): Complete French reading edition from Greek source
- Modern German (de): Complete German reading edition from Greek source
- Ancient Greek (grc): Authoritative polytonic Greek source text with line numbering
- Historical English Translations:
  - Samuel Butler (Iliad & Odyssey)
  - Alexander Pope (Iliad & Odyssey, heroic couplets)
  - Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (Iliad)
  - S. H. Butcher, Andrew Lang (Odyssey)
  - George Chapman (Iliad & Odyssey, Elizabethan verse)

## Epics
- [The Iliad](https://worldclassics.org/reader/iliad/book-01/)
- [The Odyssey](https://worldclassics.org/reader/odyssey/book-01/)

## Reader URLs
- Iliad Reader: https://worldclassics.org/reader/iliad/book-01/
- Odyssey Reader: https://worldclassics.org/reader/odyssey/book-01/