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Re:The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725) by dr_dshiv on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#24353252)
I love reading classics because there are still so many mysteries. It's not like we've figured everything out!

Here is a project I'm involved in to help support people learning classical languages:

https://alpheios.net/

I'd love to know what you think.

Re:The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725) by HuShifang on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:52AM (#24354406)
As someone who always means to learn a bit of Latin and Ancient Greek, this is a very cool looking site -- the inflection tables and diagrams are an especially nice touch. One addition that I'd love to see (if technically feasible) would be some sort of drilling or practice mechanism, e.g. a cloze-completion generator (a la Clozemaster or Lingvist, or the I think quasi-defunct Readlang).

By the way, if you're ever considering classical languages further east, I'd call your attention to ctext.org -- it doesn't do anything particularly fancy with its UI, but it has a lot of classical / premodern Chinese texts, and classic English translations (largely Legge) of some of the major ones.