Changelog

Translating Thucydides’ plague narrative, extending Enoda’s Greek parser, and building Remeta’s English vocabulary set.

The name, headings, and every Greek/Latin passage on the site were rendering in Georgia, a system font with no real typographic identity. Replaced it with Gentium Plus, self-hosted, chosen after checking actual glyph coverage rather than a font’s reputation: it fully supports polytonic Greek, the same requirement that ruled out several more fashionable options. No third-party font requests; the font files are served from the site itself, same as everything else.

The homepage gave Enoda a full illustrated card and the translations three lines of text, which said the wrong thing about what this site actually is. Translations now gets the same treatment, with a real Catullus couplet alongside the Latin. Also: the mobile nav menu now separates site pages from links that leave the site, hero/contact button text on narrow phones is bigger, the reading pages’ Contents panel has a visible close button, and Ion’s Contents list now says what each Stephanus page actually covers instead of just a number.

Added a privacy and a terms page, linked from every footer. The Enoda and Remeta email forms got a honeypot field so bots get silently dropped rather than reaching MailerLite.

Started on Carmen 63, his galliambic poem on Attis’ frenzied self-castration and flight to Cybele’s grove — a longer, stranger piece than the epigrams done so far. Marked in progress on the translations page.

Added de phaselo (the boat’s own account of its travels) and ad deos (his prayer to be released from an ungrateful love), each with the Latin, the translation and a parallel view. Six of his poems are now on the site.

Extended the translation from 539e to the end of the dialogue at 542b, across all three reading views. Ion is now marked complete on the translations page.

Fixed a handful of small bugs an outside review turned up: a 404 page whose metadata and nav highlight still said “CV”, a floating dark-mode toggle that could land on top of text when the mobile menu was open, and an inaccurate count on the translations page. Rebuilt the CV PDF from scratch so it actually looks like the rest of the site instead of a generic template.

Published the first UCL philosophy essays, the school Extended Essay, and both the Latin and Greek prose compositions to Writing. Added the light/dark toggle, and went through the whole site for phones: touch targets, sticky headers, text that survives being enlarged.

Renamed the two apps (LatinParse became Enoda, Vocab became Remeta) and rewrote their pages. Built the parallel Greek/Latin reading view and published Ion, Thucydides, and the first two Greek pieces. Moved the site to GitHub Pages.

First version of this site, live.