Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

This article deals with the project. For the German research center of the same name see Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Hamburg)

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a project to compile a dictionary of the Greek language from the beginnings through the Byzantine period to contemporary literature, including dialectal and demotic evidence. It was founded in 1972 at the University of California, Irvine by Theodore F. Brunner and has digitized almost all textual witnesses that have survived from Homer to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

The TLG was distributed on CD-ROM from 1985 to 2000 and is now available online (for subscribers). A kind of demo version offers brief excerpts from the text collection. Database users are not allowed to download or copy the texts it contains.

Until December 2006, the TLG team dedicated itself to lemmatizing the existing population. It is currently further developing the coding of the Greek script with the help of the ASCII character set Betacode .

The director of the project is currently Maria Pantelia .

Web links

• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (English)