Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos

Online Text

Link to Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos online.

Version

v.1.2.0. Status: active development; see releases.md.

Overview

This is a presentation of the Greek text of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, by Christopher Blackwell of the Furman University Department of Classics. The source Edition is: Francis Storr, ed. and trans., Sophocles. Vol 1: Oedipus the King. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. With an English translation by F. Storr The Loeb Classical Library, 20 (London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company) 1912. The machine-readable text by the Perseus Digital Library, Gregory Crane, Editor. These pages were generated using the CITE Architecture, by Christopher Blackwell and Neel Smith. The source-code is on GitHub. The CITE Architecture, ©2001–2020, Christopher Blackwell & Neel Smith.

The comprehensive syntactic analysis of Sophocles’ play was done by Francesco Mambrini.

Details

I made this both to serve as a text for an upper-level Greek class at Furman, in Spring of 2020, and as a test-bed for developing some generic tools and frameworks for the CITE Arcitecture, and for solving some problems with canonically citable texts of drama. A blog post or article describing the details will be forthcoming. — CWB 1/3/2020.

Contents and Building

• cex/ contains a CEX file with an Edition and two Analytical Exemplars of the OT. It also conains a greatly abridged CEX file for testing.
• data/ contains an index to short-definitions in the LSJ lexicon. ot_all.csv is the dataset from which the CEX files (above) and the HTML pages are generated. There is an abdridged version for testing.
• src/ contains Scala code that generates the HTML pages. It is really not well documenting, since this was a test-bed for more formal libraries to come.
• project/ and build.sbt are specific to the SBT build system. Don't mess with them.
• templates contains template files for the HTML pages, one for the index.html page (containing the table of contents), and one for each of the pages for the play's text.
• html/ contains all necessary CSS and JS files. When pages are generated, they go in html/pages/.

To build your own set of pages:

• Have SBT installed (which requires a Java JDK).
• Clone this repo.
• At its top-level (the level where build.sbt is):
  • sbt console
  • Wait for it to download dependencies, which may take a while.
  • :load make_pages.sc
  • The build process takes many minutes.

You can edit make_pages.sc to specify a target number of lines per HTML page. The default is 25.