Instructions for viewing Greek

The Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to offer The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry and Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past in standard HTML customized for Greek fonts. Drawing on the font specification capabilities of Netscape 3.0 and other browsers, this work utilizes a limited number of freeware and proprietary Greek fonts in conjunction with the fonts on your system. To browse either The Best of the Achaeans or Pindar's Homer:
  1. install Netscape 3.0 or any browser which supports font specification,
  2. select a font type for viewing the text (Ismini, Attika, Athenian, Kadmos, or Sparta for the Mac; Sgreek for Microsoft Windows),
  3. install the necessary font or software on your system, and
  4. once you've set up your system, follow the link on the appropriate Table of Contents corresponding to the format you've selected.

Nagy's work appears in the following formats:

Reading Greek with the Ismini Freeware Font

    Download this Macintosh font for free from the JHUP server or the University of Michigan's Mac archive, add the font to your system folder, restart your system, open Netscape 3.0, and proceed to the appropriate Table of Contents page.

Reading Greek with SMK Greek fonts

    To order SMK Greek Keys for the Mac, which includes Athenian and Attika Greek fonts, contact Scholars Press Customer Services, P.O. Box 6996, Alpharetta, GA 30239-6996, USA, 1-800-437-6692. To order the Kadmos Greek font, contact Allotype Typographics at 1-313-480-3666. Add these fonts to your system folder, restart your system, open Netscape 3.0, and proceed to the appropriate Table of Contents page.

Reading Greek with Sgreek for Windows

    To acquire the Sgreek font for Microsoft Windows (the basic font is offered as shareware), contact Silver Mountain Software, 1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 75104-3019, 1-800-214-2144. Add this font to Windows, restart Netscape, and and proceed to the appropriate Table of Contents page.

Reading Greek in Beta Code

    Beta code is a standard code for describing Greek letters and accented characters in plain ASCII text. There are no special requirements for viewing files in beta code. You may go directly to the appropriate Table of Contents page.

Reading Greek in English Transliteration

    There are no special requirements for viewing transliterated files. You may go directly to the appropriate Table of Contents page.

The Johns Hopkins University Press gives special thanks to David Smith, Lenny Meullner, and the Perseus Project for their generous assistance and technical support. Their tremendous efforts to disseminate knowledge in the Classics far and wide deserve unremitting praise.