Outstanding
This is your "desert island" app. An amazing tool for reading and learning Ancient Greek.
Freaking awesome
This app has completely changed the way I read Greek. I love its uncluttered, streamlined interface. The seamless interaction with Logeion is brilliant. Keep up the amazing work, and huge thanks for making this fantastic app available.
It works again
The new version has a more elegant design and more texts than the old, and a choice of fonts — every student of Greek should download this app. To be spared the tedium and distraction of dictionary page-flipping alone is worth the price — wait, it’s free! I’m so grateful to its developers
Amazing resource
I just discovered this (though I've used and enjoyed the awesome Logeion app) and have to thank the developers for making it freely available. What a great resource.
A Gift From The Gods!
I can't believe I just found this app. I've been collecting and reading OCTs and other hard-copy texts for over 40 years, the "Middle Liddell" at my elbow and the ponderous LSJ stationed on its own table across the room. They're not obsolete now - especially Commentaries - but I'll be doing most of my reading now with just my iPad mini on my lap. It's such a pleasure to read these authors unencumbered by two or three other books. Since I hadn't read any Attic in a while, I tried the app out by reading one work each from Plato, Xenophon and Lysias. Yes, it crashes when switching screen orientation, but that's more of a endearing eccentricity than a real bug. Meanwhile, I have the font scaled to suit my aging eyes, and lose myself in the Greek, enjoying the easy access to the dictionaries. Just wonderful. It will (optimistically) be two years before I run out of books I want to read. But I'd like to suggest that it might be nice to add in The Homeric Hymns, Lyric Poets, Xenophon's Hellenica and Memorabilia, and maybe Theocritus for a touch of Doric. Adding further texts seems to me the only way to improve this already extraordinary app. Many thanks to those who conceived and made this superb tool.
Probably the best Ancient Greek app available
When trying out Ancient Greek apps, it's a little frustrating since many of the apps offer some features, but not others. This one does a great job in collecting all the great features that you will need – texts, dictionaries, and parser. I have deducted one star just because of aesthetics. It is not very pleasing to the eye, but certainly gets the job done. Also, having an iPhone version would be really nice.
a wonderful app
This app is an amazing gift to students and readers of Ancient Greek. It works as advertised: tap a word and Attikos will parse it for you. If you want more details you can get dictionary entries from LSJ etc via another tap and Logeion window. It comes with a good set of texts that most people will need one time or another. It is truly stellar work and everyone interested in Greek literature should have it.
Great Greek App!
This is a great app for reading Greek! Incredibly convenient!
Excellent App
I am a beginning Greek reader, and this is the most helpful app for working through texts in conjunction with my class work. I strongly recommend for anyone interested in Greek texts. The value for price is astounding!
A truly stellar App!
Prior to using Attikos, I have never before felt compelled to review any sort of app. I must say that Attikos is a truly stellar app, and I imagine Ancient Greek readers at all levels would find it as amazingly useful as I do. The thing is, I’ve purchased all the Ancient Greek Ipad apps…LOL, yep, I did. Some are quite useful, but for my purposes they’re mainly useful as a quick reference, or when I’m on the go. I never - ever - thought I’d spend any appreciable time on them. (I’ve always been resolutely non-digital and have a 2,000 book library, half of which is composed of Ancient Greek & Latin Classics: texts, commentaries, lexicons/dictionaries, grammars etc.) However, the advantages of reading classical authors via Attikos on the Ipad are becoming too obvious for me to ignore; indeed, I am finding (much to my surprise and even chagrin!), that I am spending more and more time reading via Attikos, and less and less time with my hardcopy texts. Why? Well, for example, while I’m fairly proficient in, say, Homeric/Epic Greek, I often encounter words with which I am unfamiliar, or are being used in different ways. Normally, I have many large and heavy books around me when I’m reading (the LSJ is truly massive), and am often flipping through one of those lexicons to find a word. In Attikos, on the other hand, I simply click on a word I’m not sure about, and not only do I see basic morphological information about the word, but I am also able to click right through to the entire entries by the LSJ, the Middle Liddle, Autenrieth, etc. These are PRICELESS resources to have at your fingertips; it’s difficult to exaggerate how useful this is. Moreover, these lexicons are otherwise completely unobtrusive; for what is in front of you is a completely uncluttered text, which is lovely. As a great Classicist has said, except for when one is intensely studying a particular topic, there is very little value in the drudgery of incessantly flipping through lexicons, particularly when your are trying read as fluently as possible. The primary benefit, however, isn’t really that it makes reading easier per se (in a sense, it does do that - and, of course, this does pose some inherent dangers to the unwary student), but rather that the immediate availability of such a depth of lexicographical information allows a reader to read more deeply into the text. In short, Attikos marries ancient texts to the almost overwhelming wealth of digital resources now at our disposal (thanks in large part to Perseus!), and in so doing makes a very old and precious world that much more accessible and enjoyable. I love it! Thanks!
Thank Zeus!
This is simply amazing! Aps like this may well revolutionize the field of classics by making them much more accessible & affordable. After teaching Latin all day, my Greek gets a little rusty. This ap is the perfect pick me up. I'm hoping that it is just the beginning & that more texts will be added soon. It would be nice if the dictionary cited chapter & verse in addition to author &work. But that is a minor quibble. Great Job!
Attikos is an Ancient Greek reading app with an extensive selection of texts. It provides the reader with in-text access to morphological data and short definitions for these texts, along with easy access to full dictionary entries in Logeion, an app which needs to be downloaded separately.
Aeschylus Agamemnon, Eumenides, Libation Bearers, Persians, Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliant Women
Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica
Aristophanes Acharnians, Birds, Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Wealth, Thesmophoriazusae, Wasps
Aristotle Athenian Constitution, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Rhetoric
Demosthenes Speeches
Epictetus Discourses, Enchiridion
Euripides Alcestis, Andromache, Bacchae, Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissae, Rhesus, Suppliants, Trojan Women
Herodotus Histories
Hesiod Theogony, Works and Days
Hippocrates Ancient Medicine, Oath
Homer Iliad, Odyssey, Homeric Hymns
Isocrates Speeches
Lysias Speeches
Old Oligarch Constitution of the Athenians
Pausanias Description of Greece
Pindar Odes
Plato Apology, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus, Meno, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Republic, Symposium, Theaetetus
Sophocles Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae
Strabo Geography of Greece
Thucydides Peloponnesian War
Xenophon Agesilaus, Anabasis, Apology of Socrates, Oeconomicus, Hellenica, Hiero, Memorabilia, Symposium, Ways and Means
The original Attikos app and this revision were both built by Josh Day. Data comes from the Perseus project (mostly) and at the University of Chicago, Helma Dik has tried to make herself useful.