OLYMPIA - The Translation
Introduction:
The book OLYMPIA was originally written in "Neder-Duits", a language form that is not always easy to understand. Especially for people outside the Dutch language area, the work is almost inaccessible. To change this, I translated OLYMPIA into modern Dutch.
For this project I used a Word file with the original text of OLYMPIA, carefully composed by Philippe De Witte. I entered this text into Gemini 2.5 Pro, with the following requirements:
Assignment: Translate the entire text literally into modern Dutch.
Instructions:
Full Translation: Translate the entire text, including all Greek, Hebrew and Latin words, into modern Dutch.
Names and Places: Preserve the original Greek, Hebrew or Latin names of persons and places.
Spirit and Structure: Preserve the original spirit, text structure and page structure of the document.
Page Numbers: All page numbers must be retained.
Paragraph indication: Make the paragraph indications (§ + number) bold.
Bookmarks:
Integration: Move the information from the bookmarks at the bottom of the pages to the corresponding bookmarks in the running text.
Formatting:
Place the integrated bookmarks in brackets.
Make the text of the bookmarks italic.
Remove the indications "Book no.", "chapter no.", and "§ no.".
Removal: Remove the original bookmarks at the bottom of the pages.
Result: The final translation contains only modern Dutch text, while retaining the original formatting of names, page numbers, and the adjusted structure for bookmarks and paragraph indications.
Next step: The next step was to translate OLYMPIA from Dutch into English.
The English translation was made using Gemini 2.5 PRO.
I entered the modern Dutch text into Gemini 2.5 Pro, with the following requirements:
Translate the following modern Dutch text into clear, standard English.
Maintain the original page numbers, but format them as 'p. [number]'.
The translation should not contain any bold text.
👉 Would you like to learn more about OLYMPIA - The Translation? Explore the links below!
You can find the English version here
You can find the Dutch translation here
The adventure has begun to make OLYMPIA available worldwide!