[B-Greek] Tyndale Tech re: Searching Ancient Greek Literature
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Aug 9 07:03:26 EDT 2008
The Tyndale Tech blog entry for yesterday (August 8) has a splendid
illustrated entry on searches for information that most of us on this
list must find useful at some time or other. Find it at:
http://tyndaletech.blogspot.com/2008/08/searching-ancient-greek-literature.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/5pqcw2
Here's the introductory blurb and a list of topics treated (and nicely
illustrated with screen shots):
"The bread and butter of New Testament studies is finding out how a
word is used elsewhere. Usually this means looking it up in a good
lexicon, but a real scholar does a word search. This has recently got
a whole lot easier. TLG and Perseus are still the best sources, but
now there are new ways to use them, including instant lexical help
which isn't restricted to the speed of the web. Whether you want to do
word searches throughout all Greek literature, or you just want to
quickly look up a Greek word now and then, read on.I also want your
help adding to the ultimate list of 5000 early Greek texts and
translations.
1) TLG - 'All' of Greek literature, in Greek
2) Perseus - the earliest Greek literature, with English
3) Electronic lexicons for Greek - quicker and better than paper
4) Diogenese - the key to reading untranslated Greek
5) Fonts - the easiest Unicode for Mac & PC
6) Finding translations on the web"
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)
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