[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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