June 10, 2026

Eulogikon: Ancient Greek Texts – Free and Open Source

This site would seem to be, at a guess, a catalogue of scanned and OCR’d Greek texts, or maybe just a scrape off of a more `official’ digital repository of Greek texts such as the Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ. Uncorrected errors in the texts, especially with diacritics, make me think the former is what we’re dealing with. Superbly useful, but with major problems.

Usefulness: texts are given in clean unicode characters, easy to browse, etc; the site includes some hard-to-find esoteric gems like the Cyranides and the Biblos Sophias of Apollonios of Tyana; the whole thing is free to use for anyone with a computer.

Problems: the texts are given without any notes as to the editor and without apparatus criticus! This makes them almost unusable for scholars, and lay-people should beware, too, since when you approach an edited text you need to know who edited, what they did to the text, and so on. Also, the texts I have looked at contain errors, probably because they were machine-ripped from scans of printed works, and the machines are still not that good at recognising characters in languages like polytonic Greek.

Use it with caution, but by all means use it.