Open-source computational tools for the phonological
and rhetorical analysis of Ancient Greek verse.
Project Demetrios develops precision tools for the close reading of Ancient Greek poetry. We believe that computational analysis should serve the humanist by illuminating patterns invisible to the naked eye while remaining fully transparent in its methods.
Every tool runs entirely in the browser via Pyodide, requiring no installation, no server, and no dependency on external APIs. The result is portable, reproducible scholarship.
Read the Project Statementλόγων ἀκριβείαPrecision in words
All detection algorithms are grounded in the established conventions of existing scholarship and are fully deterministic.
Every normalisation step is opt-in and documented. The scholar remains in control of the analysis.
All source code is published on GitHub under an open licence. Scholarship should be freely reproducible.
Each tool in the Project Demetrios suite targets a distinct dimension of Greek poetic technique — from the phonological texture of vowel sequences to the large-scale architecture of rhetorical repetition.
Identifies instances of vowel hiatus across an uploaded Greek text, with support for diphthong handling, diaeresis, and more.
Detects rhetorical repetition at verse-line boundaries and across clause-delimiting punctuation, with configurable phrase length, distance windows, and stop-word transparency.
Surfaces repeated vowel and consonant sounds across nearby words, with a strict alliteration mode and fully configurable window and threshold settings.
Project Demetrios is developed with the support of
Dartmouth College.