[B-Greek] online corpus of Greek etexts for grep?
Joseph Weaks
j.weaks at tcu.edu
Fri Apr 2 09:41:06 EST 2004
If you purchased the TLG (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/), there is nothing
stopping you from converting them into whichever encoding you prefer
for the RegEx work for your own persona research. It is expensive, but
not considering what you gain access to.
Cheers,
Joe Weaks
On Apr 2, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> Is there an online corpus of classical Greek texts available? I am
> interested in something in some character encoding that allows me to
> use
> grep to search all documents for similar phrases.
>
> More specifically, is there some online database or repository that
> contains the text (not scanned image, but transcribed text,
> untranslated) of all extant Greek inscriptions, documents, records, and
> literary works?
>
> In my upcoming Bible studies, I'd love to be able to use the simple
> GNU/Unix commands like "grep" and "awk" for finding similar constructs
> and word usages in the classical literature.
>
> Is there anything like that that a penniless student could access?
>
> Specifically, I'm interested in comparing Bible phraseology and idiom
> against Plutarch, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and the Odyssey. And
> if there are any substantial works in koine, those would be nice too.
>
> No doubt this is asking for the moon. As a second best, is there an
> online etext of the LXX with Apocrypha, the NT, and the Apostolic
> Fathers in some Greek character encoding so I can read them as they
> were?
>
> Jonathan
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