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The Lexicon

A passage-level index of Ancient Greek primary texts — Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, and the Greek New Testament — with speaker attribution, psychological term tracking, and morphological analysis. The Lexicon indexes the ancient texts themselves — not what scholars say about them, but the words as spoken, by whom, to whom, and with what psychological vocabulary.

Homer

Hesiod

195 passages across 3 works. The didactic and theogonic poetry of Hesiod — the origins of the gods, the ages of man, and the moral order of the cosmos.

Homeric Hymns

199 passages across 33 hymns. Narrative hymns to the Olympian gods in the Homeric tradition — from the great hymns to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite to the short invocations of the minor collection.

Minor Hymns (29)

Pindar

293 passages across 4 collections. The victory odes of Pindar — the most complex lyric poetry of the ancient world, celebrating athletic triumph through myth, theology, and the psychology of excellence.

Greek New Testament

1,065 passages across 24 books. The same 14 psychological terms tracked through the Koine Greek of the New Testament — where ψυχή, καρδία, and πάσχω take on the theological weight that would shape Western depth psychology.

Pathways into the Text

Curated entry points connecting ancient Greek psychological vocabulary to depth psychology.

The Psychological Vocabulary

14 terms tracked across the entire corpus — Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, and the Greek New Testament. Every inflected form, every grammatical voice, every speaker.

About This Tool

The Lexicon indexes ancient Greek primary texts at passage-level granularity. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are chunked by speech boundaries using the DICES (Digital Index of Classical Epic Speeches) dataset, preserving the dramatic structure of the epics. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Pindar are chunked by line ranges. The Greek New Testament is chunked by verse ranges from the PROIEL treebank.

Morphological data comes from the AGLDT (Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank) for Homer and Hesiod, the DIORISIS corpus for the Hymns and Pindar, and the PROIEL treebank for the New Testament. Psychological terms are tracked across 14 vocabulary items central to the ancient Greek understanding of consciousness: thumos (spirit), psyche (soul), menos (vital energy), noos (mind), phren (diaphragm/thought), kradie (heart), algea (pain), pascho (to suffer), tlao (to endure), sebas (awe), pothos (longing), peitho (persuasion), aidos (shame/reverence), and nostos (homecoming).

English translations for Homer are from A.T. Murray's 1924 public domain edition. Greek text is sourced from the Perseus Digital Library's canonical Greek literature collection.