The Homer Multitext project

The Homer Multitext project is launched by Harvard University and seeks to present the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a critical framework that accounts for the fact that these poems were composed orally over the course of hundreds, if not thousands of years by countless singers who composed in performance. The evolution and the resulting multiformity of the textual tradition, reflected in the many surviving texts of Homer, must be understood in its many different historical contexts. Using technology that takes advantage of the best available practices and open source standards, the Homer Multitext offers free access to a library of texts and images and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition. The Homer Multitext is a long-term project emphasizing collaborative research, particularly by humanities students, welcomes collaboration in the form of diplomatic editions, images of historical documents and translations. Contributors offer only openly licensed material. This is a representative case of not only contributing with multimedia content and linking it to textual fragments. It is also notable that due to scholarly profile of the project’s tasks, it does not address to unexperienced crowd.

https://www.homermultitext.org/