Credits, licences & privacy

Texts and translations

All Greek texts and English translations come from the collections below and are shown exactly as published. We never edit them. If we find an error, we report it to the collection rather than changing our copy.

• Perseus Digital Library (PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• First Thousand Years of Greek (OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

CC BY-SA 4.0 means anyone may share and adapt this material, as long as they credit the source and share what they make under the same licence.

Words and dictionaries

• Word analyses (dictionary form and grammar of each word, in context), and the genre, dialect and date of each work: GLAUx, by Alek Keersmaekers, CC BY-SA 4.0 (some source texts and hand annotations carry other licences, listed in GLAUx's metadata). Hand-checked analyses come from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanks, PROIEL, the Pedalion, Gorman and Harrington treebanks and others, credited in GLAUx. Keersmaekers, A. (2021), “The GLAUx corpus: methodological issues in designing a long-term, diverse, multi-layered corpus of Ancient Greek”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 39–50.
• The Census's sorting of names into people, places and peoples, and of nouns into ships, weapons, animals and other groups, uses the class (animacy) and the word sense GLAUx gives each noun, and the groups of meanings in Princeton WordNet 3.0. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. WordNet is provided “as is”, and Princeton University makes no representations or warranties, express or implied (the WordNet licence).
• Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon (LSJ): Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica/.
• Short definitions of the commonest words and their frequency ranks: Dickinson College Commentaries Greek Core Vocabulary, by Christopher Francese and collaborators, CC BY-SA 3.0.
• Scansion of verse (long and short syllables, and the metre of each line) for Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius, Nonnus, Pindar, Theognis, the Greek Anthology, three plays of Aeschylus and other poets: hypotactic.com, by David Chamberlain, CC BY 4.0. The vowel lengths the site's own scanner uses for other texts were also learned from these scansions.
• Authors' dates, birthplaces and descriptions on the Wiki's Authors and Eras pages and on each author's page: Wikidata (property P3576, the TLG author ID, matches its people to the library's authors), CC0. Built by pipeline/build_authors_meta.py; where Wikidata has no date, the dating of works in GLAUx is used and marked.
• Wiktionary entries, fetched live when you look up a word, and each word's origin, related Greek words and English descendants on its Word Study page: English Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pictures

Every picture in the Painted Stoa comes from a collection that states its licence, and the licence is copied from that record by the script that fetched it (web/scripts/fetch-images.ts). Pictures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art are from its Open Access programme (CC0: free for any use). Photographs from Wikimedia Commons keep their photographers' licences.

• Red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter, c. 490 BC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (56.171.38). Berlin Painter. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in Black-figure and red-figure.
• Panathenaic prize amphora attributed to the Euphiletos Painter, c. 530 BC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (14.130.12). Euphiletos Painter. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in The Olympic Games.
• Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 440–404 BC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021.40.80). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in The silver of Laurion.
• Mycenaean stirrup jar painted with an octopus, c. 1200–1100 BC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (53.11.6). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in Homer's similes.
• Fragments of a Roman copy of the Great Eleusinian Relief, c. 27 BC–AD 14. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (14.130.9). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in The Eleusinian Mysteries.
• The Street of the Tombs in the Kerameikos, where the Sacred Way to Eleusis began, 2015-10-29 14:46:07. Kerameikos, Athens. Photograph by Jebulon. Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Used in The Kerameikos.
• Pericles, Roman marble copy of a Greek portrait of about 440–430 BC, 2nd century AD. British Museum, London. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5. Used in Pericles.
• Socrates, Roman marble portrait, 1st century AD. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photograph by Eric Gaba. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Used in The trial of Socrates.
• School scenes on a red-figure drinking cup by Douris, c. 480 BC. Antikensammlung, Berlin (F 2285). Photograph by Marcus Cyron. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Used in Going to school in Athens.
• Fragment of a stone allotment machine (kleroterion), 22 December 2005 (according to Exif data). Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens. Photograph by Marsyas. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5. Used in Chosen by lot: the allotment machine.
• Ostraka inscribed with the name of Themistocles, 5th century BC. Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens. Photograph by Zde. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used in Ostracism.
• The Antikythera mechanism, fragment A, 2nd–1st century BC. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photograph by Logg Tandy. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Used in The Antikythera mechanism.
• Clay tablet inscribed in Linear B, from the palace of Pylos, 13th century BC. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photograph by Sharon Mollerus. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Used in Linear B.
• Diogenes, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Jean-Léon Gérôme. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Used in Diogenes the Cynic.
• Roman wall painting identified as Crates and Hipparchia, from the Villa Farnesina, 1st century BC–1st century AD. Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Rome. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Used in Hipparchia the Cynic.
• Pythagoras, Roman marble portrait, 2nd century AD. Capitoline Museums, Rome. Photograph by Cmick25. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used in Pythagoras and the beans.
• The remains of the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta, 2019-05-15 09:12:34. Sparta. Photograph by George E. Koronaios. Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Used in Growing up Spartan.
• Asclepius, from his sanctuary at Epidaurus; Roman copy of a 4th-century BC original, c. AD 160. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photograph by Carole Raddato. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Used in Asclepius and the healing sleep.
• Painted reconstruction of the Peplos Kore (original c. 530 BC) by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, 25 February 2007. Exhibition "Gods in Color". Photograph by Marsyas. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5. Used in Greek statues were painted.
• King Aegeus consults the Delphic oracle; the goddess Themis sits on the tripod. After a red-figure cup by the Kodros Painter, c. 440–430 BC, drawing published 1846. Antikensammlung, Berlin (F 2538). Drawing from Eduard Gerhard, Das Orakel der Themis (1846). Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Used in Delphi and the oracle.
• Symposium scene from the Tomb of the Diver at Paestum, c. 470 BC. Archaeological Museum, Paestum. Photograph by Carole Raddato. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Used in The symposium.
• Gold funeral mask from Shaft Grave V at Mycenae, the so-called Mask of Agamemnon, 16th century BC. National Archaeological Museum, Athens (NAMA 624). Photograph by Jebulon. Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Used in Mycenae, rich in gold.
• Attic Geometric krater attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop, painted with a funeral, c. 750–735 BC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (14.130.14). Hirschfeld Workshop. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0. Used in Reading the layers.
• The North Entrance of the palace at Knossos, as reconstructed for Arthur Evans, with a copy of the charging-bull relief, Bronze Age palace, reconstructed in the 20th century. Knossos, Crete. Photograph by Jebulon. Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Used in Knossos and the labyrinth.
• Plaster cast in the Acropolis Museum of part of block IV of the Parthenon's east frieze; the marble original is in the British Museum, Original 5th century BC; modern cast. Acropolis Museum, Athens. Photograph by Deiadameian. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used in The Parthenon Marbles.
• Schliemann's trench at Troy (Hisarlik), cut through the mound in the 1870s, Excavated 1870s. Hisarlik, Çanakkale province, Turkey. Photograph by Dosseman. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Used in Troy at Hisarlik.

Fonts and software

• GFS Didot, by Greek Font Society. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Alegreya and Alegreya Sans SC, by Juan Pablo del Peral, Huerta Tipográfica. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• three.js, by three.js authors. MIT.
• saxes, by Louis-Dominique Dubeau and contributors. ISC.
• Next.js and React, by Vercel and Meta. MIT.
• Zustand, by Poimandres. MIT.
• supabase-js (accounts, the Town Hall and the Pnyx), by Supabase. MIT.

Images

The amphora on the home page and all ornament are drawn by this site's own code. Photographs of real objects arrive with the wiki, each with its source, creator and licence listed here.

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