Alexandros Kalogrianitis
Philosophy · Classics · Software
Third-year Philosophy student at UCL, working on ancient Greek philosophy, political philosophy and classical languages. I translate Greek and Latin, and build software for reading them: Enoda parses the grammar, Remeta drills the vocabulary.
Current work · September 2026
Translating Thucydides’ plague narrative, having just finished Plato’s Ion; extending Enoda’s Greek parser; testing Remeta on iOS ahead of release.
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My own translations from the Greek and Latin, checked against the source rather than settling for someone else’s version of it.
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
arido modo pumice expolitum?
Catullus 1 (ad Cornelium), lines 1–2 · my translation, alongside the Latin
- Translation
- To whom do I give this charming new little book, only just now polished by a dry pumice?
Highlight a passage of Greek or Latin anywhere on your Mac and get the parsing, the construction, and any literary devices, right where you are reading. It deliberately doesn’t translate and doesn’t use AI, so the translation stays yours.
ἐπιδεδήμηκας
Plato, Ion 530a · what Enoda returns for one highlighted word
- Headword
- ἐπιδημέω
- Parsing
- verb · 2nd person singular · perfect active indicative
- Senses
- to be at home, to come to stay in a place, to visit
Selected work
A vocabulary app for widening your own language or learning a new one. Around 70,000 words across seven languages, with etymologies, plus friends and challenges. In testing on iOS.
Philosophy essays from UCL, and classics work in the original Greek and Latin, including two original compositions.
Featured writing
An argument for linguistic nativism, tested against what large language models seem to show about learning grammar from exposure alone.
How the work fits together
The philosophy, the classics and the software are one thing underneath. Philosophy is where I work out how understanding happens at all. Classics is where I test that on texts written two and a half thousand years ago, in languages I have to work through word by word before I can argue with anyone about what they say. Enoda hands the mechanical half of that reading to software. Remeta is the part that keeps the vocabulary in my head. I keep coming back to language, interpretation, and what a machine can usefully do about either, from whichever side I happen to be working.