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October 16, 2018

There’s a Spectre Haunting the Classics, It’s Called the TLG

Filed under: Classics,Greek,Humanities — Patrick Durusau @ 6:50 pm

Index of Ancient Greek Lexica

Today being National Dictionary Day (a U.S. oddity), I was glad to see a tweet boasting of 28 Greek lexica for online searching.

While it is true that 28 Greek lexica are available for searching, only the results are available for eight (8) of them, access to the other twenty (20), depending upon a subscription to the TLG project.

Funded entirely with public monies and donations, the TLG created IP agreements with publishers of Greek texts, which succeeded in walling off this collection from the public for decades. Some of the less foul guardians at the TLG have prevailed upon it to offer a limited subset of the corpus for free. How kind.

Advances in digitization and artificial intelligence aided transcription promise access to original Greek materials in the not too distant future.

I look forward to a future when classicists look puzzled at mention of the TLG and then brighten to say: “Oh, that was when classics resources were limited to the privileged few.”

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