Homer’s Odyssey, in the original Greek, on your phone.
1732 Studios opens with a guided edition of the complete poem: the Greek beside a clear translation, every line read aloud, with the scholar’s reference shelf built in.
Christopher Nolan’s film ends and the poem is still there. Twenty-four books of it, in Greek, where it has been for nearly three thousand years. 1732 Studios makes an edition for reading it. It is the studio’s first.
The Odyssey: Learn Ancient Greek is the complete poem for iPhone and iPad. More than twelve thousand lines of Homeric Greek, each beside a clear English translation, each read aloud. Tap any word and the edition tells you what it is and what it is doing in its sentence. A guided course begins with the alphabet and ends in Homer. There are no streaks, no points, no badges. You read the book.
The edition includes the scholar’s shelf: Cunliffe’s Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect, Smyth’s Greek Grammar, and Monro’s Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, complete and searchable, joined to every line of the poem. These are the reference works students of Greek have kept at their desks for a century. They are in the public domain, and now they are on the page where the reading happens.
“People are going to walk out of that theater wanting the real thing. This is the real thing. The Greek Homer wrote, with enough help on the page that you can actually read it,” said Jon Ragsdale, founder of 1732 Studios.
The particulars
- The complete poem, all twenty-four books
- Free to download and begin reading; the Complete Edition is $19.99, once, no subscription
- The text, the translations, and the scholarship are in the public domain or our own
- No account, no ads, no tracking
- On the App Store for iPhone and iPad
1732 Studios makes guided editions of the great books: the original text beside a clear translation, read aloud, annotated, and on your phone. The Odyssey is the first. Editions of other great books follow, written in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, and Japanese. Audiobooks and the studio’s own English translations follow them.