Translate ancient Greek
like it's a modern language

One API endpoint. Dialect-aware. Built by a published machine translation researcher. Aorist turns ancient Greek text into accurate English with morphological annotations and confidence scores.

// Translate a passage from the Iliad

const response = await fetch('https://aorist.polsia.app/translate', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    text: 'μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος',
    dialect: 'homeric'
  })
});

// → "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles,
// son of Peleus"
The problem

Ancient Greek has been left behind by modern translation tools

Google Translate
Returns ancient Greek input unchanged. No translation attempted. Treats it as Modern Greek and fails silently.
Generic LLMs
Cambridge research found ChatGPT's ancient Greek abilities are "deeply problematic". Hallucinated verb forms, wrong tenses, fabricated vocabulary.
Academic Tools
Perseus Digital Library has 8M+ words but no translation API. Built for reading, not for building. Unchanged since 2010.
What Aorist does differently

Specialized infrastructure for a language that deserves it

Dialect-aware translation

Specify Attic, Homeric, Koine, or Hellenistic Greek. Each dialect gets its own optimized prompting and contextual understanding.

Morphological annotations

Every word returned with case, tense, mood, and voice parsing. Not just a translation, but a grammatical breakdown scholars can cite.

Confidence scoring

Each translation includes a confidence score. Rare vocabulary and ambiguous constructions are flagged so you know when to double-check.

API-first design

Simple REST endpoint. JSON in, JSON out. Built for developers integrating ancient Greek into apps, research tools, and educational platforms.

γνῶθι σεαυτόν
↓
"Know thyself"
Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Ancient Greek deserves better than "unsupported language"

2,500 years of philosophy, poetry, mathematics, and democracy, accessible through a single API call. Built on peer-reviewed machine translation research.