The Ptolemy Machine

The Ptolemy Machine: text services
Neel Smith
This site serves an in-progress edition of Ptolemy's Geography

Current status

The TEI edition of the Greek text published here is still rough in sections. By making it available through the Canonical Text Services protocol, it's possible to run machine analyses of the text that will help find errors in the geographic coordinates.

Display

The text here is displayed using the Unicode Greek character set from the basic multilingual plane. For two frequently characters beyond the basic multilingual plane, the Greek signs for 1/2 and 1/3, I substitute fractions written with Arabic numbers.

Read

The services hosted here are primarily intended for automated use by other computer programs, but you can follow the link below to to browse and read the text of Ptolemy's Geography.
 See also Neel Smith's statement on this project at: A new comer to Pelagios: the Ptolemy Machine