Epos Meter

Epos Meter is an offline classical-prosody workbench for learning and practicing dactylic hexameter on real Homeric and Hesiodic verse. Built for classics students, Latin and Greek teachers, and serious self-learners, it turns abstract meter rules into a concrete bench you can scan, hear, drill, and compose on—from the first launch, with no network required. Open authentic seed lines in Greek script with scholarly transliteration and a plain-English gloss. Mark long and short syllables on a live Scansion Bench, auto-group feet into dactyls and spondees, and get immediate feedback when a line breaks hexameter constraints. Place principal caesuras and bucolic diaeresis with diagram overlays that show why a cut is preferred. Train ear and eye together: run timed Foot Pattern Drills (dactyl vs spondee), review misses with annotated correct scans, and play on-device Recitation Lab clips for curated lines—then mute and re-mark scansion from memory. Compose with confidence in the Verse Forge. Type transliterated syllables and watch live scansion as you go; lock a line only when the meter engine accepts a legal six-foot pattern. Drop stock phrases from the Formula Codex—epithets and noun-epithet formulas grouped by metrical slot—so your original lines stay metrically legal. Structured Lesson Paths cover quantity rules, elision and crasis, mute-plus-liquid, and spondaic fifth exceptions, each ending in a short mastery check tied to codex lines. Compare two seed lines side-by-side for seminar or homework prep. Filter the Verse Codex by work (Iliad, Odyssey, Theogony, selected Homeric Hymns), book, and difficulty. Everything you need is seeded on device: verse packs, audio examples, drills, and validation. Optional practice reminders and a Home Screen widget are off by default until you enable them. Privacy Policy and Terms are always one tap away in Settings. If you need interactive meter craft rather than a passive quote browser, Epos Meter gives you the bench, the pulse, and the proof.