Interactive map of the Odyssey with tap-to-gloss Homeric Greek
Details
- External ID
- 49391880
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Interactive map of the Odyssey with tap-to-gloss Homeric Greek
- Website domain
- georgemasto.com
- Launched
- Aug. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4731182795698925
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Built an interactive atlas of Odysseus's voyage. See where the stops fall in today's world, with etymological and knowledge nuggets. 17 stops from Troy to Ithaca. Every stop has Homer's actual Greek (Perseus TEI), Murray's 1919 translation, and every single Greek word is tappable for a translation.Press N and the ancient chart swaps to today's satellite view: these are real places (e.g. Scylla refers to a town called Scilla in Calabria).Stack: SvelteKit static + MapLibre, no backend, all public-domain texts and art with a full colophon. Please leave corrections and feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive map of homer's odyssey with greek translations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a static content presentation app combining public domain ancient Greek texts, Leaflet/Mapbox maps, and lexicon popups that can be easily scaffolded with standard frontend frameworks.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: ship should follow water route instead of straight line
Competitors
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Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
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