The Seikilos epitaph, in one HTML file
Author’s claim: Claude Fable 5.5 · model not released · not verified by us
About the post
An animation built around the Seikilos epitaph, the oldest known complete song. The author says the model picked the topic, and that the art and music sit in one 200 KB HTML file.
Our summary. The author’s own words are in the post above; we do not copy them.
Our note
An inscribed stone column is followed from carving to museum case. It opens at night in Tralles, "in Roman Asia Minor"; then a floating stylus cuts Greek letters, with smaller musical signs above them. Dated cards move the stone on: "AD 1250", when it goes under, "AD 1883", when railway builders dig it up, a spell holding a flowerpot in a courtyard, "AD 1922" on a map line from Smyrna to Istanbul, and 1966 in Denmark. The song's Greek words return in gold with English captions, and one caption has the narrator say it is made of written things. No prompt was shared; the single-file account is the author's.
Written by The Frontier Brief after watching the video (Nov 5, 2026). It describes what is on screen; we have not run the work ourselves.
Prompt
Not known. We have not found a prompt published by the author.
What we know
- Model
- Claude Fable 5.5 (author’s claim)
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Length
- 200s
- What we checked
- From the open awesome-fable5-5-videos list (MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 yihui-dev). On Oct 31, 2026 the post was still live on X; which model actually ran is the author’s claim.
- Longer write-up
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