Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, world’s most comprehensive digital library of Greek literature, launches

January 01, 1972 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, world’s most comprehensive digital library of Greek literature, launched

Founded in 1972 by graduate student Marianne McDonald, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae was the first effort in the humanities to produce a large-scale digital body of literary works. The project has collected and digitized more than 12,000 Greek texts, from Homer to the fall of the Byzantium.