Software and Databases
 
Software and Databases for Greek and Linguistics
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Oak Tree Software produces a program that allows Mac users to access the standard grammatically tagged databases and several unique texts as well as offering an interactive atlas and timeline. An emulator lets PC users run this program as well. To learn more about Accordance, click on the image above.
Accordance is an extremely powerful program with amazing flexibility. If you work with the Greek New Testament and use a Mac, you should have this program. Windows based software for a similar set of databases (GRAMCORD) is discussed below.
The  American Classical League provides a listing of software related to Ancient Greek (as well as Latin). The software comes from a wide variety of sources and serves an equally wide range of needs.
Centaur Systems publishes two programs for learning ancient Greek (  Gramma 4.0 and HyperGreek 3.0) and two others on Greek history/ mythology
( Olympia, Two Greek Myths).
The  GRAMCORD Institute is a Washington Non-Profit Corporation that supports and conducts computer-assisted study of biblical languages. Click on the logo to the right to see their web page.
The GRAMCORD Institute produces Windows based software to access the databases it manages. Similar software for the Mac (Accordance) is discussed above.
Hungry Frog Homeric Greek Vocabulary Builder
This program is targeted at children in grades 4-12. It teaches the basic vocabulary necessary for an introductory course in Homeric Greek. The child selects words to practice from a main dictionary of 1500 Greek words correlated with 3000 English definitions. Personal dictionaries are automatically saved under the player's name. Up to fifty students can use the same copy of the program, with each having her or his own personal preferences stored. Internal feedback loops focus on problem words. Available for MacOS, Windows, and Palm.
Kalos is a Classical Greek dictionary with definitions in English, French, and Spanish. The dictionary also includes New Testament / koine vocabulary. You can download it from the Kalos website.
While the basic program is free, some advanced features require a $29 registration fee.
 
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is the largest existing electronic data bank of Greek texts. It contains most of the ancient Greek literature from Homer (8th century B.C.) to 600 A.D. plus numerous texts from the period between 600 and 1453 A.D. The goal if the organization is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.  
While the full database is quite expensive, a sub-corpus (Abridged TLG) containing 900 Greek works from 67 authors, together with the bibliographical database developed by the TLG (Canon of Greek Authors and Works), is open to the public without charge.
The Summer Intstitute of Linguistics provides software for linguists on both MacIntosh and Windows platforms. SIL has developed more than 60 pieces of software to support the work of its fieldworkers. Most of these are available to the public for free download.
Versions for both Linux, Mac, and Windows are available.