What is Antiquarium?

Antiquarium 2 is a modern 32-bit Windows application aimed at comfortable reading and extensive searching of classical texts in Greek and Latin which have been included in Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) and Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) databases. Antiquarium incomparably interprets all subtleties of the TLG and the PHI unique format.

You don't need Internet access to use Antiquarium2. Just sit back in your favorite chair and browse easily texts you work with -- page by page, author by author.

The use of modern programming techniques allows Antiquarium2 managing billions of words and indexed word lists extremely fast, by global and conditional search approaches while the search process itself is totally controlled by a user.

Upon a user's request Antiquarium2 generates convenient reports of search results and prints them out for further investigation in classes.

Old texts are full of hundreds of special symbols which are not available in a standard Windows font set. These symbols are described in detail in the TLG Beta Code Manual. Most of the symbols are contained in the modern Unicode format (we use standard Palatino Linotype font for Greek and Latin texts). Absent symbols are included into the unique Antiquarium2 font (Gr_Symbol) provided with distro package so that you can get a correct display of rare glyphs.

Antiquarium2 allows to study Greek sources selectively by dates, location, subjects, even by gender of an author! It shows bibliographical and other useful information attached to the original database texts.

Performance, precision and friendly interface make Antiquarium2 the invaluable tool for any scholar or student who works with early Greek and Latin texts.

Hardware and software requirements

Antiquarium2 will run on any PC under Windows 2000 (or higher). It was tested on a PII-400 machine and ran flawlessly. However, for faster search PIV machine is highly recommended with at least 256 Mb RAM.

Required display resolution is 800*600 pixels. You get best display results with display resolution 1024*768 and color depth 32 bits per pixel.

The Palatino Linotype font should be present in your system. It is standard for Windows2000 or WindowsXP. Be sure to install also additional Gr_Symbol font which you can download directly from this site.

Be sure to have CD-ROM drive to read TLG or PHI databases from a CD. Otherwise you can access databases from network drive.

To input Greek characters (say, using the TLG Word List) you have to install Polytonic Greek keyboard layout. (If you don't know how to do that, check below in the section "Tips and Tricks").

Antiquarium2 Tips & Tricks

In the Mass Find window use '?' to designate any character in the search string. When you use Polytonic keyboard layout, you might be confused in finding it. To envoke the "?" symbol, type it as usual, then press [Space]. *

When you paste Greek text from Antiquarium to standard Windows Notepad, you might not see it correctly due to Windows defaults. In Notepad select Font, then in the window select the font Palatino Linotype. Now the Greek citation in Notepad will display (and print) correctly

Sometimes you need to run a global search through many texts. This procedure can be rather time-consuming. While Antiquarium is searching, it gradually adds new results, one by one, to the report list. Click the Report tab of the Mass Find window and you will see the titles of works with found results. Select any title with the mouse and [Enter]. Thus you can start studying a report while Antiquarium is still finishing his job.

When you open TLG Word List (F7 key), Antiquarium will automatically switch your keyboard layout to Greek Polytonic. Just type a necessary word. If you don't have this Greek Polytonic layout installed, follow the instructions below:

1. Start→Settings→Control Panel.
2. Double-click 'Regional Options'.
3. Check 'Greek'. Click 'Apply'.
4. You will be required to insert installation CD. After copying necessary files restart your PC.
5. After restart go again in Control Panel. Double-click 'Keyboard'.
6. Click on tab 'Input Locales'. Click 'Add'.
7. As 'Input Locale' select Greek, as 'Keyboard Layout' select Polytonic.
8. Click OK.

When the search option Whole words only is checked, and you use wildcards * (asterisk) or ? (question mark), then a partial word which succeeds or precedes the wildcard will not be found. For example, if you run a search using the entry *ligo then Antiquarium2 will find words colligo, obligo, eligo etc. but it won't find just ligo.