GQQCMAME Collection – Homeric Odyssey Books 21‑24 and Early‑20th‑Century German Homeopathic Case Notes

Overview

The GQQCMAME Collection is a digitally curated assemblage that brings together two distinct thematic groups: (1) the complete transcriptions of Homer’s Odyssey Books 21‑24 with accompanying entity‑relationship metadata, and (2) a single‑page German manuscript of circa 1900 containing homeopathic medical case studies and remedy prescriptions, also indexed by a machine‑generated relationships file. Both groups are presented as plain‑text (or image) files together with JSON‑encoded entity lists and PINAX catalogue records that supply bibliographic metadata and access URLs.

Background

The Odyssey texts derive from a scholarly edition of the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer (late 8th century BCE). They were digitised and released under a public‑domain licence, reflecting the final narrative arc of Odysseus’s return to Ithaca. The medical manuscript originates from the German homeopathic tradition at the turn of the twentieth century, a period when practitioners recorded detailed case histories to justify mineral‑ and plant‑based remedies. The Arke Institute digitised the manuscript, providing a high‑resolution JPEG scan, OCR transcription, and a structured entity index.

Contents

• Odyssey Books 21‑24: Four plain‑text files (book21.txt‑book24.txt) containing the full text of the concluding books, plus relationships.json (71 entity codes linking characters, objects, and events) and a pinax.json record describing author, date, language, and subjects.
• Medical Case Studies (c. 1900): One scanned JPEG image (scan_revenge1.jpg, 418 KB), full OCR transcription of German case entries (cases 64‑80) detailing symptoms and homeopathic remedies (e.g., Lachesis, Sulphur, Aurum), and a relationships.json file enumerating 84 identifiers for medical concepts and the owning institution. A pinax.json entry supplies collection‑level metadata.

Scope

The collection spans two disparate domains: (a) literary scholarship on the Odyssey (late 8th century BCE, mythic Ithaca and the underworld) and (b) historical medical practice (German‑language homeopathy, circa 1900). Geographic focus includes ancient Greece and German‑speaking Europe. Subject coverage comprises epic narrative events, character interactions, and, separately, symptomatology, therapeutic regimens, and case documentation. No additional commentary, earlier books of the Odyssey, or supplementary medical pages are included. This combined resource supports comparative digital‑humanities research, classical studies, and the history of medicine.