Marvellous
A wonderful app. I am reading Medea right now. I use the app for vocabulary and turn to my commentary book for explanations. Makes things so much faster. It will definitely be my constant companion when reading Greek. A Latin one would be nice too. I have written an app myself - not to do with languages - so I fully appreciate the hard work which went in to producing this.
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Fantastic!
I love this app so much—it’s completely changed the way I read Greek (for the better). Very grateful that it’s been created and maintained.
Pretty cool
But they forgot to build their dictionary (Logeion) into the app, so now you need to modulate back and forth between apps.
English please?
I would like this app to have an option for English translation.
Response from developer
Hi! We are struggling to make space (and still don't please everyone with the selection of Greek texts!); translations are more easily available on line in mobile-usable format, so that is why we made the choice we made. Sorry:-(
Outstanding
This is your "desert island" app. An amazing tool for reading and learning Ancient Greek.
Response from developer
Many thanks! Hope we can all travel again soon. In the meantime, we recommend reading daily, in bed, over breakfast:-)
What a pleasure to use
Linked with Logeion, this takes reading Greek lit into a new age. Using it for Homer and Herodotus right now.
Response from developer
Such generous praise! Glad you like it.
Great
I love this app. Some tiny annoying features, like the fact that the list of authors can't be hidden while you are reading the text.
It would also be great if you could highlight the text with colours. I would LOVE it if the app remembered every word that you looked up and saved them in a list for you to revise from later. As a classics student that would be super helpful.
Overall, best app ever and wish there was a Latin version!!!
It would also be great if you could highlight the text with colours. I would LOVE it if the app remembered every word that you looked up and saved them in a list for you to revise from later. As a classics student that would be super helpful.
Overall, best app ever and wish there was a Latin version!!!
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Response from developer
Valid points, all! Sorry to report that the genius volunteer programmer has a day job.. We hope you can still enjoy, and in time forgive, the no-frills version:-)
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.
Response from developer
Thank you for the awesome review! Apologies for not responding before.
Attikos Greek text reading app
This is a superbly constructed app which advertises its capabilities with utmost accuracy. It puts a number of canonical texts right at your fingertips with enough help one click away to be able to read without recourse to another dictionary.
Great stuff indeed.
Great stuff indeed.
What a great app!
This is a great app. It has all the key classical Greek texts that I want (Homer, the tragedians and so on) and presents them in a very clear format. And it links to Logeion’s Greek lexicon.
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
Response from developer
Many thanks for the updated review! Glad you like it.
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.
Response from developer
Many thanks for the nice words, and for the immediate review of the new version! Hope you continue to enjoy it.
Fantastic
This will be really helpful for when I take Homeric next semster.
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.
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.
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Rough but amazing
The app is utterly fantastic - having the Perseus library with a better UI at your fingertips is worth the price of an iPad. There are things that I wish it did, and some bugs I wish would be fixed, but with all of its imperfections it's hard to exaggerate how useful I find it.
Bug: It crashes hard when changing screen orientations.
Problems: iPhone support would be a huge win. The font isn't bad, but it could be better. More text, of course!
Opportunity: I'd pay lots of money to have the full Liddell & Scott integrated, or one (or more) of the Homeric lexicons. It's probably a pipe dream, but I'd pay more than the cost of the print lexicons without blinking.
Bug: It crashes hard when changing screen orientations.
Problems: iPhone support would be a huge win. The font isn't bad, but it could be better. More text, of course!
Opportunity: I'd pay lots of money to have the full Liddell & Scott integrated, or one (or more) of the Homeric lexicons. It's probably a pipe dream, but I'd pay more than the cost of the print lexicons without blinking.
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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.
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.
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Perfect Companion for a Classics Student
I will admit that the main reason I bought an iPad was for this app, simply amazing. Perfect for quickly looking up a word or searching several dictionaries for a more comprehensive definition. Like Perseus but wrapped up into a much more stable environment, and mobile! I don't know how I lived without this app. Made my semester with the Bacchae much less painful and include slightly less tears (unfortunately it won't take midterms or finals for you).
One thing though, I'd love some Aristotle (preferably De Interpretatione and Categories) but right now the list is amazing.
Thanks a million!
One thing though, I'd love some Aristotle (preferably De Interpretatione and Categories) but right now the list is amazing.
Thanks a million!
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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!
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!
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