Homer’s Odyssey (Books XIII–XX) and 19th‑Century Homoeopathic Case Studies Collection

Overview

The GF0Y3N67 archive is a digital assemblage that unites two distinct corpora: (1) a complete, plain‑text rendering of the latter half of Homer’s Odyssey (books XIII–XX) and (2) a scanned page from the 1836 issue of the German periodical Correspondenzblatt der homöopathischen Aerzte. The materials are catalogued in the PINAX system (title “Homer’s Odyssey and Medical Case Studies Collection”) and are accessible via the ARKE Institute URL. Supporting metadata files (relationships.json, reorganization‑description.txt, pinax.json) provide entity identifiers, provenance notes, and the rationale for the two‑group organization.

Background

The Odyssey texts are derived from a public‑domain English translation of the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer (8th century BCE). The selected books cover the hero Ulysses’s return to Ithaca, his concealment, the reunion with his son Telemachus, and the confrontation with Penelope’s suitors. The homoeopathic material originates from the Correspondenzblatt published by the N. A. Akademie der homöopathischen Heilkunst in Allentau an der Lecha (present‑day Germany). Issue No. 6 (March 1836) contains three detailed case reports on headache and ophthalmic disorders, illustrating therapeutic use of remedies such as Spigelia and Nux vomica.

Contents

• Odyssey_Books: Eight plain‑text files (books XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XVII, XIX, XX) with full narrative content and a JSON mapping over thirty‑four literary entities (characters, objects, locations) to stable archival identifiers.
• Medical_Cases: One high‑resolution scanned image of the March 1836 journal page, transcribed case notes for patients J. A. F., F. Romig, and editorial remarks by J. Walter, plus a relationships.json file linking the journal, academy, physicians, remedies, and dates (1833–1836).
• Administrative Files: reorganization‑description.txt (explaining the two‑group split), pinax.json (catalog record with creator, subjects, and access URL), and a master relationships.json enumerating the nine primary entities (e.g., “homer”, “odyssey”, “medical_cases”).

Scope

Geographically the collection spans ancient Greece (Ithaca, Scheria, surrounding islands) and 19th‑century Central Europe (Allentau, Lecha River) with a trans‑Atlantic reference to Ohio, USA. Temporally it covers the mythic period of Odysseus’s wanderings and the specific months of early 1836, with cited events from 1833–1835. The archive is limited to the selected Odyssey books and a single journal page; earlier Odyssey books, later journal issues, and broader homoeopathic literature are excluded. Together the materials provide a juxtaposition of classical literary heritage and historical medical practice, each enriched by systematic entity‑linking for scholarly research.