News

• February 23, 2011: The TLG is pleased to announce the release of the Online Liddell-Scott Jones, the premier lexicon for ancient Greek. All lemmata and word forms in the TLG corpus are now linked to a new dictionary page that contains links to LSJ. The lexicon is open to the public. Read moreabout the LSJ project about the project. With this release Dindorf's scholia to Euripides have also been added to the corpus.

• September 2, 2010: The TLG corpus has been updated with fifty-seven new texts from twenty-one (21) authors, drawn from a variety of historical periods: The Periplous Maris Erythraei and Aristophanes' plays have been updated with new editions. As usual, the earlier editions can still be browsed and searched via the Abridged TLG. The Byzantine collection now includes Michael Psellus' Περὶ τραγῳδίας Theodore Prodromus' Tetrasticha and a large number of new hagiographical works. From the later periods, F. Scoufos' Ὁ Γραμματοφόροςi> and Leo Allatius' Hellas are among the new additions.

• August 20, 2010:
  The TLG seeks to add two members to its team, a Programmer / Analyst to maintain and expand its search engine and a Research Associate to supervise its digitization projects. For more information, please contact the TLG.

• May 6, 2010:
  Sixteen (16) new texts added to the corpus. Additions include Philodemus, De Ira, the Hexabiblos, K. Harmenopoulos' 14th century law collection, two Byzantine novels (Belthandrus and Chrysantza, Libistrus and Rhodamne), and several lamentations for Constantinople.

• January 26, 2010:
  A new corpus update was completed with twenty-four (24) new texts added to the corpus. Additions include new works by Michael Psellus and Joannes Tzetzes, several vernacular works (Libistrus and Rhodamne, Bellum Troianum and Historia Belisarii, Georgius Chortatzes' Cretan play, Erofile) and updated editions of Moeris' Lexicon, Cyril's Epistulae Paschales and Eudocia Augusta's Homerocentones. Automatic recognition in the lemmatized corpus is now up to 95% accounting for 99.86% of all word instances. 300 lemmata from DGE missing from the other lexica have been added and disambiguation of forms has improved.

• October 29-30, 2009:
  Reclaiming the Past, Envisioning the Future: A Conference to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the TLG.
  October 29, 2009 marked the 37th anniversary since the establishment of the Project. The TLG held a conference to celebrate the event and honor the memory of Theodore F. Brunner (1934-2007), founding TLG Director. The conference program information is available at the conference page: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/2009conference/ Click here to see the Anniversary video produced for this event and a photo retrospective dedicated to Theodore Brunner.

• July 15, 2009:
  The TLG was mentioned in Inside Higher Ed (Digitally--and Financially Viable) and the Chronicle of Higher Education (How to Help Digital Resources Thrive, Even in Hard Times) in articles related to the sustainability study conducted by the Ithaca group.

• March 12, 2009:
  The TLG site has just been updated. The new page includes a brief history of the TLG illustrated by a timeline, a link to Google Maps showing TLG Real-Time Access and FAQs for subscribers. The Abridged version has been expanded with more than 600 works from Migne's Patrologia Graeca (MPG). The lemmatized search engine is now available on the Abridged version.

• February 11, 2009
  Twenty-three (23) new works from twelve (12) authors and work collections have been added to the Online TLG. They include works by Pseudo-Gregentius, Constantinus Stilbes, Georgius Tornices, Manuel Carantenus, Joannes Phrangopulos, Rhetorius, Andronicus II Palaeologus, historiographical works about the Byzantine emperors and a new edition of Socrates Scholasticus' Historia ecclesiastica. The code for lemmatized searches is stable enough and has been removed from Beta Phase and incorporated into the search engine. Lemmatization of the corpus has reached approximately 95% recognition but remains an ongoing project.

• September 1, 2008:
  After 18 years on the third floor of Berkeley Place the TLG had to move to make room for the new UCI Law School. We moved to University Tower at the University Center in September 2008.

Earlier postings

• January 15, 2008
  Twenty-five (25) new works from fifteen (15) authors and work collections have been added to the Online TLG. They include the Grottaferrata and Escorial version of the epic of Digenes Acritas, John Climacus' Scala paradisi, works by Germanus I, Theodorus Dexius, Gregorius Magnus, Damascenus Studites and others. A number of improvements have been made to the TLG lemmatizer increasing recognition to over 91%. As of this release, the lemmatizer has been modified to search for lemmata in upper case.
  
• May 3, 2007
  Twenty-two (22) new works from ten (10) authors and work collections have been added to the Online TLG. They include works by Antiochus Monachus, Germanus I, Neophytus Inclusus, Michael Glycas, Theorianus Magister and others.
  A number of improvements have been made to the TLG lemmatizer increasing recognition to over 90%.
  
• December 13, 2006 Lemmatized searches (BETA version)

  We are pleased to release a new feature of the TLG search engine, i.e. lemmatized searches. The new feature is still work in progress and is released for testing purposes.

  The TLG Lemmatization Project Work on lemmatization began in 2003 and benefited from access to software known as Morpheus developed by the Perseus Project. Morpheus was designed to deal effectively with a relatively narrow, well-documented cross section of the Greek language, i.e. the classical canon, meaning Epic and Attic Greek with some Doric, Ionic, and Koine forms. The TLG corpus encompasses the totality of Greek literature, including Early Modern Greek, and Byzantine texts. As a result, lemmatization of the TLG corpus required a different philosophy and a significantly more complex architecture, which combines lexical and morphological databases, and extensive programming in order to increase parses and achieve higher and more accurate form recognition.
  At the time of its first release in December 2006, the TLG lemmatizer recognized approximately 88% of the unique wordforms in the TLG corpus.
  We welcome suggestions and feedback from our users.

• December 13, 2006
  Eighty works (80) from fifty-one (51) authors and work collections have been added to the Online TLG. They include Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulus' Historia ecclesiastica, the Homiles of Gregorius Palamas, a large number of hagiographical works and several demotic texts, including two Byzantine novels (Imberios and Margarona, Phlorius and Platzia Phlora) and the Chronicon of Morea
  
• June 1, 2006
  
  One hundred twenty-two (122) works from 50 authors and work collections have been added to the corpus. They include works by Byzantine authors such as Joannes Chrysostom, Joannes Apocaucus, Macarius Macres, Isidorus Glabas, Theodorus Metochites, Manuel Palaeologus, Demetrius Chrysoloras and a new edition of C. Manasses' Breviarium Chronicum and Ephraem's Historia Chronica. A number of new hagiographical works have also been added.
  
• February 13, 2005
  One hundred eight (108) new works from 48 authors were added to the corpus. They include a number of hagiographical works (including the Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopoleos), the Synodicon Orthodoxiae, the Documents of the Lyon Council, as well as works by Photius, Alexius Macrembolites, Nestorius, Maximus Planudes, Georgius Pachymeres and Josephus Bryennius.
  
• October 12, 2005
  Two hundred fifty two (252) works from 50 authors and work collections have been added to the corpus. They include theological and hagiographical works as well as monastic foundation documents.
  
• August 3, 2005
  Five hundred new works (500) from 31 authors and work collections have been added to the corpus. They include the published archives of 8 monasteries from Mount Athos, in addition to works by Gennadius, Nicephorus Blemmydes, Georgius Pachymeres, Abramius, Diadochus and Neophytus Inclusus. The text of Joannes Moschus' Pratum spirituale was also added to the collection.
  
• April 29, 2005
  Four hundred forty works (440) from 43 authors and work collections have been added to the corpus. They include the published archives of 9 monasteries from Mount Athos, in addition to a number of monastic typica and hagiographical works.
  
• December 20, 2004
  Two hundred sixteen (216) works from 15 authors were added to the corpus. They include legal texts (such as Epanagoge, Prochiron, Prochiron Auctum and Prochiron Legum), Tzetzes' Exegesis of the Iliad, Chronica Byzantina breviora and the published archives of 5 monasteries from Mount Athos.
  The Online TLG has moved to a new server, hopefully faster. A number of minor updates and corrections have been made, too many to mention and mostly not noticeable to the user. The Unicode mapfiles have been updated to reflect additions to Unicode 4.1. If you are using a unicode font that has not been updated recently, you may not be able to view all characters correctly. GreekKeys Unicode and Cardo and are the two fonts that have been updated to include all assigned Unicode codepoints.
  
• August 4, 2004
  Eighty nine (89) works from 33 authors were added to the corpus. They include a number of legal texts (Ecloga, Epanagoge, Epitome Basilicorum, Lex Mosaica), hagiographical works and Posidippus' fragments. The Canon Database now allows users to search for or exclude from their searches vernacular and diplomatic editions.
  
• April 15, 2004
  One hundred twenty-seven (127) works from 54 authors have been added to the corpus. They include the musical works of Alypius, Bacchius Geron and Gaudentius, a number of works by Proclus (the theologian), Joannes Pediasimus, Theodorus Anagnostes, Nicephorus Uranus and Nicephorus Anagnostes, Joannes Cantacuzenus, Theodorus Gazes, Bessarion, Constantinus and Theodorus Palaeologus and others.
  
• January 22, 2004
  One hundred twenty-four (124) works from 34 authors have been added to the corpus. They include new editions for the works of Aeschylus and Sophocles as well as the lives of Aristophanes and works by Proclus of Constantinople, Gennadius Scholarius, Bessarion, Lucas Notaras, Philagathus, Demetrius Chrysoloras, Georgius Gemistus and a number of hagiographical works.

  Text structure has been added to the search engine. By clicking on "View Text structure" either in the Canon or the text browsing page, users can now view the structure of the text and select the particular section they wish to browse.

• October 6, 2003
  Links to online translations have been added. Most of the translations come from Perseus, Diotima, the MIT Archive and the Dumbarton Oaks web site. This is an ongoing project and more translations will be added as they become available. When possible, the link to the online translation will take you close to the particular citation of the TLG text you are browsing. When the translation is not broken into identifiable sections, the link will take you to the beginning of the translation, in a separate window.
  
• September 30, 2003
  Twenty-seven new works have been added to the collection including the Magna and Parva Catechesis of Theodore Studites. We have modified the encoding of almost 1,000 tables for on-screen viewing. An interactive keyboard has been added to the Simple search (a keyboard display is available to both Simple and Advanced Search). Links to Perseus have been modified so that users may select the Perseus home site or one of its mirrors. The ability to order search results by date has been added to Simple Search as well as in users' Preferences. Please note that if you order your results by date, searches will be considerably slower.
  
• August 1, 2003
  Eighty-nine new works from thirty-three authors were added to the corpus, including works by Isidorus Pelusiota, Irene Chumnena, Georgius Gemistus, Marcus and Johannes Eugenicus, the Scholia to the Basilica collection and a number of hagiographical works. Canon crossreferences can now be included in the searches and text crossreferences have been added to a number of works.
  
• May 8, 2003
  The Online TLG® now offers users the option to input and display texts in Unicode Greek. Some browsers still do not support Unicode input. The option to use "non-Unicode" fonts with beta or transliteration is still available.
  One hundred thirteen new works were added to the corpus. They include more than 50 works by Georgius Scholarius, as well as a number of hagiographical texts.
  Added cross-references to Canon author and work entries.
  
• March 27, 2003
  Dates added to "Search by work" page. Users can now combine dates and work classification in searching the Canon.
  
• February 7, 2003
  A new feature has been added to the Advanced Search. When users select Word Index proximity searches, i.e. searches involving 2 or 3 words in the same context, they are presented with 2 or 3 lists of forms to choose from.
  
• January 27, 2003
  New features added to Saved Searches. Users can now merge and edit saved Canon searches.
  A new version of the annotated Beta Code Manual was posted to the TLG web site together with a Quick Reference Guide of Beta with its Unicode equivalents.
  
• January 14, 2003
  Works by Georgius Scholarius (3195 006-016) were added to the corpus together with the Basilica (5065), an extensive collection of Byzantine imperial laws, and the Analecta Hymnica Graeca (4354 006-012), a large collection of Byzantine hymns.
  
• January 6, 2003The Online TLG is now available to individuals by subscription.
  
• December 2, 2002The online login system was modified. Institutional users are no longer required to login with an individual password. They have the option to create a personal account if they wish to save their searches and customize their preferences (set a user profile).
  
• October 14, 2002Site updated with new authors and works. Forty two new works were added. They include works by Isidorus Pelusiota, Eustathius Macrembolites, Michael Syncellus, Nicetas Stethatus, Theodorus Metochites, Scholarius, Georgius Gemistus, Casia and many others. The browsing mechanism was also modified to improve text navigation.
  
• October 9, 2002Breakdowns of texts added to the online interface.
  
• September 5, 2002'Save My Searches' feature has been expanded to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. Users can now compile and save their own list(s) of authors.
  
• July 16, 2002The Online TLG was moved to 'Stephanus' a new server named after the 16th century author of the Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. Stephanus, an Enterprise 450 Unix server was donated to the TLG by the Academic Equipment Grant Program of Sun Microsystems, Inc..
  
• July 15, 2002'Save My Searches' feature implemented. Users can now save up to 10 text searches for later review.
  
• July 15, 2002
  Site updated with new authors and works. A total of two hundred twenty-three (223) new works were added. They include works by Theodorus Studites, Georgius Pachemeres, Georgius Gemistus, Nilus Cabasilas, Manuel Carantenus, Nicephorus Gregoras and a large number of astrological texts.
  
• June 6, 2002'Set User Settings' feature implemented. Users can now set their preferred default font, lines of context, results per page, etc.
  
• May 2, 2002
  Site updated with new authors and works. Seventy seven (77) new works added. They include Philodemus' On Poetry and works by Arethas, Ioannes Pediasimus, Anastasius Sinaita, Symeon Seth, Manuel Holobolus, Theodorus Mopsuestenus, Theodorus II Ducas Lascaris and many others.