On Line Library of the Church of Greece

Maria Pantelia

The TLG Project

An interview with George Valsamis

The new Thesaurus Linguae Graecae CD-ROM contains 1,823 authors, 6,625 works, all, of course, in the original Greek language. Prof. Maria Pantelia has been the TLG Director since 1998. We asked her to give us some information on this amazing work and her opinion on the status of our culture and the possible contribution of the TLG to the strengthening of the values on which our culture is based.

 

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae or "Treasury of the Greek Language" was conceived and initially funded by Marianne McDonald. In 1972 Marianne McDonald, then a graduate student in Classics at the University of California, Irvine and now a Professor of Theatre and Classics at UC San Diego, proposed the creation of a computerized databank of Greek Literature. (...) Twenty eight years later, the Thesaurus of the Greek Language is a reality. The TLG digital library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, an excess of 80 million words. The center continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the byzantine and post-byzantine period. TLG texts are disseminated in CD ROM format in more than 50 countries world-wide and used by thousands of specialists and non-experts. TLG users include researchers, educators and students from a wide range of disciplines such as classics, archaeology, history, art, history, philosophy, linguistics, and theology/religious studies in more than 2,000 universities and research centers around the world. The Project has just released its new CD ROM (E).

 

 

 

 

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