[HN Gopher] The Internet Classics Archive (1994)
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The Internet Classics Archive (1994)
Author : prox
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-07-04 12:07 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (classics.mit.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (classics.mit.edu)
| ColonelPhantom wrote:
| The page asks me for a login. Is it supposed to be public or not?
| prox wrote:
| The link itself should work, so not that I can see. But some
| outgoing links do seem to have a bit of a problem.
| candlemas wrote:
| Some of the texts cut off abruptly. Look at Herodotus for
| example.
| kaetemi wrote:
| Oh wow. The page source is literally cut off.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| Some links are just dead too, Livy was what I checked. I know
| it's not the actual point, but the link is borderline Amazon
| affiliate spam at this point when compared to Project
| Gutenberg.
| lwn wrote:
| Many links to translations seem to be broken as well, example:
| http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschines/aeschin.3.html
|
| At least there's a webmaster address. Let's see what happens
| when notifying them.
| prox wrote:
| I posted this link, it's a pity its not working in the best
| of shape. I remember the link from when it was working as it
| should. Last update seem to be 2009ish.
| netfortius wrote:
| "Not Found
|
| The requested URL /cgi-bin/text was not found on this server"
|
| Seven out of seven tries... Can't be that unlucky???
| lisper wrote:
| Weird how Julius Caesar wrote of himself in the third person.
|
| The intro to book 1 of the Civil Wars is particularly bizarre:
|
| "Vossius's supplement to the first book: I will now say nothing
| concerning the absurd opinion of those who assert that the
| following Commentaries on the Civil War were not written by
| Caesar himself. Even without the authority of Suetonius, the
| diction itself would be sufficient to convince the most skeptical
| that Caesar and no other was the author. I am of the opinion of
| those who think that the beginning of these Commentaries is lost.
| For I can not be convinced that Caesar commenced so abruptly; and
| History itself gives sufficient evidence that many circumstances
| require to be previously stated. For which reason we thought that
| it would be well worth our attention to compile from Plutarch,
| Appian, and Dion, a narrative of such facts as seemed necessary
| to fill up the chasm; these facts are as follows: "When Caesar,
| after reducing all Transalpine Gaul, had passed into Cisalpine
| Gaul, he determined for many reasons to send embassadors to Rome
| to request for him the consulate, and a prolongation of the
| command of his province....."
|
| That was supposedly written by Vossius, not Caesar, but it is
| stylistically indistinguishable (to me) from the rest of the
| text. I can't tell where Vossius's writing stops and Caesar's
| starts.
| lou1306 wrote:
| From what I have seen, the broken outgoing links mentioned in
| other comments point to the Perseus digital library [1], which I
| would suggest as a first stop for your classical literature
| needs.
|
| [1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
| westcort wrote:
| I made something with all of the pre-1918 books that are now out
| of copyright: https://www.locserendipity.com
| prox wrote:
| That's really cool, thanks for that!
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