A graphical interface for Mac OS X to browse the greek word database of Perseus Digital Library [1].
The application is developed by Librum [2]; it contains a library to manipulate greek characters and diacritics, using an extension of unicode that include more ancient greek glyphs.
The application is currently localized for english and italian; it could be easily localized in more languages.
When you start the application, you'll have an empty word list. To populate the list, you've two ways:
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open a XML file, with the Perseus syntax. It takes some times to parse the xml file. Note: you can find the whole file with all greek forms in Perseus Hopper: download the source [3] and navigate to sgml/xml/data, the file is greek.morph.xml; but actually it's too big to be parsed from the application. Maybe future version will resolve this limitation.
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open an archive file that you've previously saved. Archive file contains the same information of xml file but it's much more fast to load.
You can find the file containing all greek verbs in this repository.
After you've populate the list, you can filter it using the search field. You can use a latin keyboard, mapping between latin and greek characters is as follow (beta code convention [4]):
a:ALPHA b:BETA g:GAMMA d:DELTA e:EPSILON z:ZETA h:ETA q:THETA i:IOTA k:KAPPA l:LAMBDA m:MI n:NI c:XI o:OMICRON p:PI r:RHO s:SIGMA t:TAU u:UPSILON f:PHI x:CHI y:PSI w:OMEGA
You can help to improve the quality of Perseus database and of this application using the report link. Thank you!
Perseus database copyrights
Tufts University holds the overall copyright to the Perseus Digital Library; the materials therein are provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication without authorization is strictly prohibited. Copyright is protected by the copyright laws of the United States and the Universal Copyright Convention. For more information: www.perseus.tufts.edu
Source code - Librum library
All the source code in this repository is developed by Librum. For more information: www.librum.it