Overview

Rating:
4.80
(22)
Version:
1.0
Last updated: 2020-04-15
Ranking
#271,775 ▼ 1,302
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Bellerophon transforms your mild-mannered iPhone or iPad into a bastion of scholarship. Browse a compendious library comprising thousands of texts ranging from Homer to Ammianus Marcellinus to Beowulf and spanning millennia, compare multiple works side-by-side, add your own notes and bookmarks for quick reference, view morphological analyses for Greek and Latin texts, and more!

Bellerophon includes the following features:

  • Over 3,500 texts in 10 languages included, with no internet access needed!
  • Includes texts ranging from canonical classical works to lesser-known authors like Quintus Smyrnaeus and Anna Komnena, to works outside the traditional sphere of classics such as Beowulf, ancient Jewish and biblical texts, and much more! Most texts are in the original language, but the collection also includes over 900 translations into English, as well as some surprising versions of familiar works (such as Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic).
  • For Greek and Latin, you can request morphological analyses from the Perseus Digital Library by double-tapping on a word (note that this does require an internet connection).
  • Quickly navigate any text via a hierarchical table of contents, add your own bookmarks for even faster reference to specific sections, or just jump straight to a particular passage by entering it in citation form.
  • Search the full text of any document, matching on a specific word or substring, and page through results.
  • Open multiple windows side-by-side in the same session: you can compare the different passages of the same text, view the original alongside a translation, or juxtapose entirely separate texts.
  • Add your own notes to record new vocabulary or whatever else you like. Additionally, many texts include the contents of footnotes originally present in the printed editions, ranging from apparatus criticus entries to helpful background information.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Adrian Packel
Rating:
4.80
(22)
Version:
1.0 Last updated: 2020-04-15
Version code:
835543064
Creation date:
2020-04-15
Compatible devices:
Size:
479.81MB
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Developed by:
Adrian Packel
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bellerophon/id1508038196

User Reviews

How beautiful it is to mine eyes that I might look upon Ancient Greek and Latin Literature in my pocket. A library in my palm with the generous scribbles of geniuses from the dusty days
by Ph*****, 2025-04-08

I’ve been studying Greek and Latin for 25 years. Early on Perseus became available, which was amazing, but Bellerophon is even more amazing. It’s a VAST repository of G/L texts, including by many authors I’ve never even heard of. Classic authors, Church fathers, obscure geographers and philosophers—they’re in here. The more common texts have English translations, so you can split the screen and do a Loeb-like side-by-side comparison. Even 25 years in, I still struggle with these languages, but having a vast repository of texts with translations gives a lot of material to play with. Also, you can pull up a quick morphological analysis if stuck on a word. My only complaints are minor. It would be nice if it could automatically find the English text (if present) and give you a one-click way to get it into split-screen. Also, to get the morphology requires a double-tap plus finding and selecting an option from a larger menu. It’d be nice if a long-tap on a word would pop up the analysis. Otherwise, wow, well done.
by Ja*****, 2025-03-02
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