Description of Antiquarium
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Antiquarium is a 32-bit Windows tool (a "shell"), provided for reading and searching Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) and Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) databases of classical texts. The use of modern programming techniques allows Antiquarium managing billions of words and indexed word lists extremely fast. Antiquarium generates convenient reports of search results and prints them out for further investigation in classes. Old texts are full with hundreds of special symbols that are not available in the standard Windows font set. They are contained in the Antiquarium font set provided in the distro package so that you get the correct display of complex graphics. Antiquarium allows sorting of Authors by dates, it shows bibliographical and other useful information attached to the database texts. Performance, precision and a friendly interface makes Antiquarium an invaluable tool for any scholar or student who is engaged in studies of early Greek and Latin texts. |
