Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ( TLG) is a project to create a dictionary of the Greek language from the beginnings of the Byzantine period to the contemporary literature, including the dialectal and demotic certificates. It was founded in 1972 at the University of California, Irvine Theodore F. Brunner and has digitized up to now almost all traditional textual evidence from Homer to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

The TLG was distributed on CD- ROM and is now ( for subscribers ) available online. A sort of demo version provides brief excerpts from the text collection. Users of the database may not download or copy the texts contained.

By December 2006, the team devoted to the TLG the lemmatization of the stock. At the time they developed the coding of the Greek script using the ASCII character set Betacode on.

Director of the project is currently Maria Pantelia.