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The article gives a nice survey on recent results of the author together with \textit{F. Ledrappier} [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 18, 17-39 (1998; Zbl 0915.58074) and ``Geodesic paths and horocycle flows on abelian covers'', in Lie groups and ergodic theory (Mumbai 1996), Stud. Math. Tata Inst. Fund. Res. 14, 1-32 (1998)] on ergodic properties of the geodesic flow and the horocycle flow on the homology cover of a closed hyperbolic surface \(S\). The paper introduces in a very economical way the main objects discussed: A family of Borel-probability measures on the unit tangent bundle \(T^1S\) of \(S\) which parameterize via their asymptotic cycles the interior of the unit ball in \(H_1 (S,\mathbb{R})\) with respect to the stable norm. These measures lift to measures on the unit tangent bundle \(T^1 S'\) of the homology cover \(S'\) of \(S\) which are invariant and ergodic under the horocycle flow. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0857.00014].