Dimotiki translations of ancient greek texts

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Hi,

I would like to read Ancient Greek texts, e.g Sophocles, in modern Greek translations, but have only found translations into katharevousa. It makes sense since newer translations are rarely public domain. Does anyone know where to find modern translations as ebooks to import into lingq? Free or paid.

Best regards,
Carl

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https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/ancient_greek/library/index.html

For Sophocles:
https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/ancient_greek/library/index.html?author_id=214

Bonus: this repo contains a script to automatically scrape books from that site so that uploading to lingq becomes a matter of three or four clicks. It is not documented, you have to bit a little tech savvy.

You would just run this by changing the parts under if __name__ ... at the very bottom. Then, use the main app to upload in bulk to lingq from the scraped folder of txt files.

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Are you interested for Sophocles - ā€œAntigoniā€ in a pdf file (525KB)?

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Thank you very much! Iā€™ll try out the script, hopefully Iā€™ll get that working :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much but I will try the scraping script that rafarafa linked to first! :slight_smile:

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The scraper worked great, thanks! But unfortunately I canā€™t get the main app to run, getting an exception when trying to import a function from utils. Did you write it or can help me out? Otherwise I might look into it later. Either way thanks a lot, Iā€™m gonna look into those other links to from the etc folder!

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If what you are finding is an import error from utils, probably you didnā€™t install the project correctly.

On the top of my head you:

  1. clone the repo
  2. go inside the repo
  3. run python3 (or python depending on your OS) path/to/scraping/script.py for running the scrapper. This will hopefully write the texts in a downloads folder at the root
  4. python3 venv venv or whatever you prefer to create a virtual environment
  5. activate the venv
  6. pip install .
  7. lingq setup YourApiKey (you can find your key at some link in the github repo, I donā€™t remember it)
  8. lingq post el YOURCOURSECODENUMBER -t downloads/YOURFOLDER

The course/collection code number you get it by creating one in the website, then going to edit or view mode and checking the last number in the URL. For example, in https://www.lingq.com/es/learn/el/web/library/course/2228579 it would be the 2228579

I could add some screenshots but it wonā€™t be much different from the steps above. Let me know if you still have trouble with the installation.

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Thanks a lot, it worked out! I managed to mess up some part of the installation, and I have never used venv before so I was a bit confused. But I got it running through the vscode debugger in the end :laughing: Ī•Ļ…Ļ‡Ī±ĻĪ¹ĻƒĻ„ĻŽ Ļ€ĪæĪ»Ļ!

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Glad to know. I was somewhat afraid I did not properly explain it.

I used that script a year ago and made as far as the eight book of Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, which amounted to ~200/~400 lessons. Thankfully I didnā€™t do that importing manually :smiley: