Sources
Do not cite a modern retelling as Homer.
Generated interpretation · a textual object, not an excavated bed
The layers stay apart
For each road the layers stay apart.
Source text. Critical edition. Translation. Ancient commentary. Modern scholarship. Later artistic reception. Interpretation.
Seven layers
Source text
17
Inanna’s Descent
“Inana’s descent to the nether world” (ETCSL 1.4.1). Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford.
Critical edition
2
The Odyssey
Homerus. Odyssea. Ed. M. L. West. De Gruyter, 2017.
Translation
8
The Odyssey
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. A. T. Murray. Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press, 1919.
Ancient commentary
2
The Odyssey
Aristotle. Poetics. On anagnorisis as a later critical term.
Modern scholarship
13
The Odyssey
Heubeck, Alfred, Stephanie West, and J. B. Hainsworth, et al. A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford, 1988–1992.
Later artistic reception
6
The Odyssey
Ithaca, New York. Named 1804 after Homeric Ithaca. About 42°26′N. A namesake, not a relocation of the poem.
Interpretation
2
The Odyssey
English Ordinal ITHACA = 42 (I 9 T 20 H 8 A 1 C 3 A 1). Full Reduction ITHACA = 24 (I 9 T 2 H 8 A 1 C 3 A 1). Reverse Ordinal 120. Reverse Reduction 39. Four faces, unblended. Greek Ἰθάκη is a different sum. Cipher of the English spelling, not Homeric Greek.
Visual material
Generated art interprets. It does not become the record.
Visual material is labeled as ancient object, later artwork, reconstruction, site photograph, or generated interpretation.
Generated interpretation · a threshold, not a find from the ground
What the collection actually holds
Generated interpretation
57
Ancient object
0
Not yet. Rights first.
Later artwork
0
Not yet. Rights first.
Reconstruction
0
Not yet. Rights first.
Site photograph
0
Not yet. Rights first.
Manuscript
0
Not yet. Rights first.
Editorial chairs
Roles the writing aims toward.
They are not claimed as external human reviewers unless humans actually sat.
Classicist
Keep Greek, Latin, and the later commentarial tradition from collapsing into one English sentence.
Folklorist
Keep oral performance, variance, and living office from being treated as a defective book.
Cartographer
Keep a line on a map from pretending to be more certain than the evidence.
Dossier
Each road, its layers
- The Odyssey
Translation
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. A. T. Murray. Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press, 1919.
Public-domain English used for short quotation. Not treated as the Greek.
Critical edition
Homerus. Odyssea. Ed. M. L. West. De Gruyter, 2017.
One major modern edition of the Greek text.
Modern scholarship
Heubeck, Alfred, Stephanie West, and J. B. Hainsworth, et al. A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford, 1988–1992.
Modern scholarship
Felson, Nancy. Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics. Princeton, 1994.
Penelope as agent, not prize.
Modern scholarship
Malkin, Irad. The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity. University of California Press, 1998.
Translation
Wilson, Emily, trans. The Odyssey. Norton, 2017.
Cited as a major contemporary translation; not quoted at length here.
Ancient commentary
Aristotle. Poetics. On anagnorisis as a later critical term.
Later artistic reception
Ithaca, New York. Named 1804 after Homeric Ithaca. About 42°26′N. A namesake, not a relocation of the poem.
Later artistic reception
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 1979. Forty-two as the answer whose question was lost.
Interpretation
English Ordinal ITHACA = 42 (I 9 T 20 H 8 A 1 C 3 A 1). Full Reduction ITHACA = 24 (I 9 T 2 H 8 A 1 C 3 A 1). Reverse Ordinal 120. Reverse Reduction 39. Four faces, unblended. Greek Ἰθάκη is a different sum. Cipher of the English spelling, not Homeric Greek.
- Inanna’s Descent
Source text
Sumerian composite assembled from many tablets. ETCSL writes Inana with one n. Kramer writes Inanna with two. The composite is the reconstructed Sumerian. The English page is ETCSL’s translation, not Kramer’s.
Translation
Kramer, Samuel Noah. “Inanna’s Descent to the Nether World.” Various editions.
Compare, do not collapse, with the Akkadian Ishtar descent. The 1937 publication is not the later Wolkstein composite.
1937, Revue d’Assyriologie 341950 revision, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4
Source text
Akkadian poem. Related to Inanna’s descent, not the same text.
Later artistic reception
Popular composite. Not a substitute for the tablets.
Modern scholarship
Katz, Dina. “Inanna’s Descent and Undressing the Dead as a Divine Law.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 85 (1995).
The undressing as the netherworld’s ordinance. A me of the kur fulfilled. Not a later workshop about psyche.
Source text
The Sumerian Temple Hymns. Sjöberg, Åke W., and E. Bergmann. The Collection of the Sumerian Temple Hymns. TCS 3. Locust Valley, 1969. A corpus attributed to Enheduanna, counted as forty-two hymns. A list, not a cipher of the descent.
Interpretation
English Full Reduction ENHEDUANNA = 42 (E 5 N 5 H 8 E 5 D 4 U 3 A 1 N 5 N 5 A 1). English Ordinal 87. Reverse Ordinal 183. Reverse Reduction 48. INANNA does not lock. Four faces, unblended. Cipher of a later spelling, not Sumerian. ISHTAR noticed, not plated.
- Gilgamesh
Critical edition
Scholarly baseline. Two volumes. Not a popular retelling.
Translation
Readable English from the same editor. Distinguish from Mitchell.
Source text
Electronic Babylonian Library. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Akkadian witnesses. Composite is not a novel.
Later artistic reception
Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Free Press, 2004.
A literary version. Not a translation of the tablets. Do not cite as George.
- Orpheus
Source text
Virgil. Georgics 4.453–527.
Source text
Ovid. Metamorphoses 10.1–85; 11.1–66.
- Ovid at Tomis
Source text
Ovid. Tristia; Epistulae ex Ponto.
Modern scholarship
Claassen, Jo-Marie. Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius. Wisconsin, 1999.
- The Camino
Source text
Liber Sancti Jacobi (Codex Calixtinus), 12th century.
Modern scholarship
Turner, Victor, and Edith Turner. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. Columbia, 1978.
Anthropology of pilgrimage; not a Camino guidebook.
- Jonah
Source text
Book of Jonah. Hebrew Bible / Tanakh.
Modern scholarship
Simon, Uriel. Jonah. JPS Bible Commentary. Jewish Publication Society, 1999.
- Shackleton
Source text
Shackleton, Ernest. South. 1919.
Source text
Worsley, F. A. Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure.
Source text
Frank Hurley’s expedition photographs. Contemporary visual record.
- Sunjata
Source text
A performed recitation, not a novel. Closest English door this page names.
Translation
Conrad, David C. Sunjata: A New Prose Version. Hackett, 2016.
Prose drawn from jeli recitations. Compare, do not collapse, with Johnson.
Later artistic reception
Niane, D. T. Soundjata ou l’épopée mandingue. Présence Africaine, 1960. English: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali.
Literary reconstruction after Mamadou Kouyaté. Widely taught. Not a substitute for performance.
Modern scholarship
How the epic is used. Not a plot summary.
- The Wilderness
Source text
Exodus; Numbers 10–14, 20, 33; Deuteronomy 1–2, 8, 29, 34. Hebrew Bible / Tanakh.
Translation
NJPS Tanakh. Jewish Publication Society, 1985, with later printings.
Modern scholarship
Kugler, Gili. “Did the Exodus Generation Die in the Wilderness or Enter Canaan?” TheTorah.com, 2019.
Modern scholarship
Levine, Baruch A. Numbers 1–20. Anchor Bible 4. Doubleday, 1993.
Modern scholarship
Weinfeld, Moshe. Deuteronomy 1–11. Anchor Bible 5. Doubleday, 1991.
Modern scholarship
Propp, William H. C. Exodus 1–18; Exodus 19–40. Anchor Bible 2, 2A. Doubleday / Yale, 1999–2006.
- The Going Forth
Source text
Majjhima Nikāya 26, Ariyapariyesana / Pāsarāsi Sutta. Pali canon.
Source text
Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.38, Sukhumāla. Pali canon.
Source text
Dīgha Nikāya 14, Mahāpadāna Sutta. Four sights of the former Buddha Vipassī, not Gautama’s street.
Translation
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans. Ariyapariyesana Sutta. Access to Insight.
Translation
Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Wisdom, 1995.
Later artistic reception
Aśvaghoṣa. Buddhacarita. Ca. first–second century CE. Later literary life; not early sutta.
Ancient commentary
Nidānakathā, introductory commentary to the Jātaka. Later full biography including the four sights applied to Gautama.
Modern scholarship
Wynne, Alexander. The Origin of Buddhist Meditation. Routledge, 2007. On the teachers and the search.