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ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπονOdyssey · 1.1
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For two and a half thousand years, the same lines have been waiting for someone to read them as they were written. Translations are interpretations — faithful, beautiful, and not the thing itself. Sophist hands you the Greek, and everything you need to actually read it: morphology under every word, a translation a thumb-tap away, and a tutor who will sit with you in any passage for as long as you like.
What the app does.
Sophist, the tutor
Discuss any passage with a tutor who has read it before you. Ask for context, etymology, or argument.
Spaced review
Saved words return on the SM-2 schedule. Your vocabulary compounds quietly while you read.
Quizzes from your reading
Tests built from words you’ve actually met — not a deck someone else made.
Fourteen voices
Heraclitus, Aristophanes, Xenophon and eleven others. Each reads the poem differently. Choose your company.
630 works in Greek
Homer to the Orators. Tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy — the canon, offline, in the original.
Inside the app.
Fourteen tutors. One poem.
Sophist is not one voice. Choose a tutor and the same line means something else. They disagree on purpose.
AlcibiadesΑΛΚΙΒΙΑΔΗΣ
Socrates’ brilliant, ruinous student. Reads the Odyssey as a manual for the man too large for any single city.
AntisthenesΑΝΤΙΣΘΕΝΗΣ
The Cynic before the Cynics. Wrote an entire volume on the Odyssey — he literally wrote the book.
AristophanesΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΗΣ
Athens’ greatest comic. A working poet reading another poet’s craft — obscene, lyrical, alert to every joke.
CalliclesΚΑΛΛΙΚΛΗΣ
The aristocrat from Plato’s Gorgias. Reads the poem through natural justice and the strong man’s right to rule.
CritiasΚΡΙΤΙΑΣ
Plato’s cousin and leader of the Thirty. Reads Homer as a manual for political control with chilling clarity.
EuthyphroΕΥΘΥΦΡΩΝ
The prophet. Reads every line for divine intention — serenely sure he knows what the gods meant.
HeraclitusΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΤΟΣ
The Obscure One of Ephesus. Illuminates the text in lightning-flashes — oracular, dense, unforgettable.
IonΙΩΝ
The professional rhapsode. Knows Homer in the body, not the mind. Reads with breath, rhythm, and tears.
PindarΠΙΝΔΑΡΟΣ
Greece’s greatest lyric poet. A craftsman reading a craftsman — the aristocratic vision of human excellence.
ProdicusΠΡΟΔΙΚΟΣ
The sophist obsessed with the exact word. Why this verb and not its near-synonym? He will tell you.
TeacherΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΟΣ
The philologist you wish you’d had at fifteen. Grammar, meter, manuscript — rigorous, warm, patient.
ThrasymachusΘΡΑΣΥΜΑΧΟΣ
The cynic from Republic I. Strips the moral pretense off the poem and shows you the mechanics of power.
XenophonΞΕΝΟΦΩΝ
The soldier who marched the Ten Thousand home. Reads the Odyssey as a field manual for leadership and survival.
What you can read.
The canon, in the original. Every work ships with the app and reads offline.
Epic
- HomerIliad · Odyssey
- HesiodTheogony · Works & Days
- ApolloniusArgonautica
- Homeric Hymns33 hymns
Tragedy
- Aeschylus7 plays
- Sophocles7 plays
- Euripides19 plays
Comedy
- Aristophanes11 comedies
- Menanderfragments
History
- HerodotusHistories
- ThucydidesPeloponnesian War
- XenophonAnabasis · Hellenica
- PolybiusHistories
Philosophy
- Platocomplete dialogues
- Aristotlecomplete corpus
- Pre-Socraticsfragments
- PlutarchLives · Moralia
Oratory & Lyric
- Demosthenesspeeches
- Lysias · Isocratesspeeches
- Aeschines · Antiphonspeeches
- Pindar · Sapphoodes & fragments
630 works total · bundled offline · Perseus-quality texts
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