The Greek Library

Data & rights

Data

Downloads

Each reading file contains the Greek text, divisions, blocks and editorial metadata. Uncompress the gzip file to read its UTF-8 JSON. These downloads are reading documents, not the source TEI XML files.

Bulk download

The catalogue lists every edition; append .gz to its objectKey and prefix the text registry base URL to get its reading file. The script below does it for the whole corpus.

Text registry base URL
https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/api/v4/projects/1918/packages/generic/corpus/1

Example file URL
https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/api/v4/projects/1918/packages/generic/corpus/1/works/tlg0012/tlg001/local001.json.gz

Python script: download every reading file
import json
import gzip
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.request import urlopen

catalogue_url = "https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/catalog.json.gz"
text_base = "https://gitlab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/api/v4/projects/1918/packages/generic/corpus/1"
with urlopen(catalogue_url, timeout=60) as response:
    catalogue = json.loads(gzip.decompress(response.read()))

destination = Path("greek-library")
destination.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
(destination / "catalog.json").write_text(
    json.dumps(catalogue, ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8")

for entry in catalogue["entries"]:
    relative_path = entry["objectKey"] + ".gz"
    target = destination / relative_path
    target.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    with urlopen(text_base + "/" + relative_path, timeout=60) as response:
        target.write_bytes(response.read())
    print(entry["id"], flush=True)

Rights

The texts and their enrichments are distributed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Their legal status, provenance and the procedure for claims are set out on the legal page.

Read the sources and legal status

Versioning

This publication uses corpus release 2.3.0, dated 2026-08-31. CTS identifiers are the stable edition keys.