COMPUTER CLASSICS: The Huntington Library isn’t the...
COMPUTER CLASSICS: The Huntington Library isn’t the only place where ancient texts are stored (A1). UC Irvine is home to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a computer repository of some 65 million words of ancient Greek dating from 750 B.C. to 600 A.D. The 20-year-old database gives researchers access to the writings of 3,500 authors and 9,500 literary works. . . . Before TLG, a classical scholar might spend weeks plowing through writings of people such as Athenian historian Thucydides. “Now, I can run through the same 151,000 words in 7.4 seconds,” said TLG director Theodore Brunner.
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