For more information on The Iliad in Greek and Translation, take a look at Rick Brannan’s post on the Logos Blog.
Benefits of the Logos Bible Software Edition
The Logos edition of The Iliad is actually 5 resources in one. The main resource is the Greek text of The Iliad, presented in its entirety together with morphological tags, lemmas, and English glosses. Essentially an interlinear edition, this presentation lays bare the text for Greek students and scholars who wish to ascertain the details and nuances of language in the original, classical Greek.
Bundled together with the Greek Iliad are complete translations of the work in four different, modern languages: Spanish, German, French and English. All five the resources can be synchronized to scroll together in resizable windows to ensure total comprehension of the text.
Furthermore, the Logos edition allows you to perform both simple and complex searches for surface forms, lemmata, and morphology. The results are viewable in context, or you can click to open the Greek text directly to the passage. Lemma forms are encoded in the resource, enabling instant look-up of words in the Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon.
Value of The Iliad in Greek and Translation for Biblical Studies
A thorough understanding of Greek is an invaluable tool in the study of the New Testament, and The Iliad in Greek and Translation offers students of Greek a terrific opportunity to further familiarize themselves with the language. Using the resource as a study aid, you’ll be able to search vocabulary in the New Testament to see how it was used classically. Moreover, you will be able to effortlessly look up The Iliad references in Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon, BDAG and other Greek grammars once those resources are updated with links to The Iliad.
Sample Screenshots from the Electronic Edition
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| Fig. 1—On the left is The Iliad in Greek. On the right is the English translation, synchronized to scroll with the Greek. |
Fig. 2— The Iliad in Greek with the German, Spanish, English and French translations open. All are synchronized to scroll with the Greek. |
Fig. 3— A Greek term being looked-up in Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon. |