kraken-gaza-batrachomyomachia

Theodorus Gaza’s prose paraphrase of the Batrachomyomachia.

Started from the initial OCR results of kraken-gaza-iliad. Since the Batrachomyomachia is a shorter work included in those volumes, I decided to split it off and correct it first as an experiment in seeing how the quality was and to get a finished corrected short work out the door.

OCR is being manually corrected in the individual .txt files in the nfc folder, which are then automatically assembled together by scripts into complete texts:

• Prose paraphrase
• Prose paraphrase, lineated
• Verse edition
• Verse and prose side-by-side
• Verse and prose side-by-side PDF

Useful links:

• A scan of the print edition is available here
• A 19th-century edition of the paraphrase, used for lineation, is available here
• Matthew Hosty’s PhD thesis (since expanded into a print monograph) provides an edition and commentary on the Batrachomyomachia