# The Odyssey — a Claudyssey

> A complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey: all
> 12,107 lines, one English line per Greek line on Murray's 1919
> numbering, translated by a language model (Claude) from the Greek and
> human-edited. The English translation is public domain (CC0 1.0); the
> scholarly notes and name index are CC BY 4.0; the Greek is Murray's text
> (public domain) via the Perseus digitization (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cite passages as book.line (e.g. 9.366). Every verse of the reading
edition has a stable anchor: /read/book-09.html#L366.

## Machine-readable layer

- [manifest.json](https://theclaudyssey.com/api/manifest.json): describes every file below,
  with per-book URLs, line counts, and licensing
- [aligned-01.jsonl … aligned-24.jsonl](https://theclaudyssey.com/api/aligned-09.jsonl): the
  Greek-English parallel corpus, one JSON object per verse line
  ({book, line, greek, en})
- [book-01.txt … book-24.txt](https://theclaudyssey.com/api/book-09.txt): full translation
  source per book, verse plus 1,260 line-keyed scholarly notes
- [registry.json](https://theclaudyssey.com/api/registry.json): every named person, god,
  people, and place, with citations
- [About the API](https://theclaudyssey.com/api/): formats, examples, licensing detail

## Reading edition

- [Contents](https://theclaudyssey.com/read/index.html): all 24 books, one page each
- [Index of names & places](https://theclaudyssey.com/read/names.html)
- [Independence analysis](https://theclaudyssey.com/independence.html): measured n-gram and
  shared-passage overlap against nine prior translations, with controls,
  method, and limits
- [About & downloads](https://theclaudyssey.com/): EPUB, Kindle, PDF, audiobook

## Source

- [Repository](https://github.com/spinchange/claudyssey): full revision
  history, Greek source, build tools