Diogenes 3.0.10

Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute.
The goal of Diogenes is to provide a free, flexible and transparent interface to the classical databases on CD-Rom in the PHI format, which include the TLG, the PHI corpus of Latin texts up to AD 200, the Duke Documentary Papyri collection, and the PHI-sponsored corpora of ancient inscriptions.
It is free software: you are encouraged to modify, improve, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public license.
Main features:
Diogenes is completely free.
- It is available at no cost, and the source code is available for inspection and modification under the terms of the GNU General Public license. It is a tool written by a scholar for scholars.
Diogenes can run just about anywhere.
- It is written in the highly portable programming language Perl, and it is easy to install on a variety of platforms. Operating systems on which Diogenes is known to run include GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
Diogenes is easy to use.
- You can use your normal web browser as a familiar and easy-to-use interface to the databases: search for a word or phrase, browse to a particular location in an ancient text, view texts in your browser, and cut and paste them to other applications.
Diogenes is fast.
- Provided that you are not using an antique computer and you are not running a search that turns up millions of hits, Diogenes should run quite briskly. I have been told that its performance compares favorably to other, commercial programs of its type.
Diogenes is powerful.
- While the basic interface is quite simple, more complex searches are easily done: use spaces to delimit word-boundaries; limit your search to particular texts (for the TLG, you can limit by genre, date, etc.); search for the presence of two or more words in the same clause, sentence, paragraph or range of lines.
- For advanced users, you can search for regular expressions (patterns of text), and there is a command-line tool as well as the web interface.
Diogenes can run over a network.
- If you have the license to use the databases in this way, Diogenes can be set up to provide access to users across a network, to any computer with a web browser. In a departmental context, this could significantly ease administration.
Diogenes can output Greek in many encodings.
- By default, the web interface displays Greek as Unicode, but if you need compatibility with other encodings, such as WinGreek, GreekKeys, or LaTeX, you can output Greek in many of these different formats. See the list on this page.
Diogenes has many features.
- Diogenes has many features, such as hyper-linking all Greek and Latin words to the Perseus morphological analysis tools, and the ability to jump straight to the context of any search result.
Enhancements:
- The graphical interface is now based on the Mozilla (Firefox) platform. A custom browser, implemented in XUL and Javascript, communicates with a local Perl server which it starts and stops and which provides the content. For the most part, the same code is used for all three major platforms, enormously easing maintenance and release management. Diogenes is now bundled with xulrunner for each platform, and releases for all platforms can be made on a single (Linux) machine.
- The improvements made in version 2.1 (see below) are released to the public for the first time. The code for handling user-defined corpora is rewritten to make In networked mode, the server allows individual users to have their own settings profiles, via cookies.