• Index of journals articles, multi-author works, and books reviews in the field of religion.
• Created by the American Theological Library Association
• Full text availability for more than half of the citations.
• 1949 – present
Subjects covered primarily include history, philosophy, and religion. You are invited to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones. This is the complete collection. Moody Library has about two-thirds of the physical collection.
The creation of the TLG came at the end of a long tradition of scholarly efforts to systematically collect and preserve extant Greek literature. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 and beyond. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. TLG research activities combine the traditional methodologies of philological and literary study with the most advanced features of information technology.
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In 1971 Marianne McDonald, then a graduate student in Classics at the University of California, Irvine, motivated by her dissertation research on "terms of happiness" in Euripides, proposed the creation of a computerized databank of Greek Literature. Founded in 1972 the TLG represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. The concept was extraordinary since no one until then had considered the marriage of Classical scholarship with the rapidly emerging new technologies.
