Attikos Reviews

Attikos 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.

Attikos 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.

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 Attikos. 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

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!

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.

This is your "desert island" app. An amazing tool for reading and learning Ancient Greek.

Attikos is an amazing gift to students and readers of Ancient Greek. It works as advertised: tap a word and this app 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.

I would like Attikos to have an option for English translation.

This will be really helpful for when I take Homeric next semster.

This is a great app for reading Greek! Incredibly convenient!

But they forgot to build their dictionary (Logeion) into Attikos , so now you need to modulate back and forth between apps.

Prior to using this app, I have never before felt compelled to review any sort of app. I must say that this app 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 this app 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 this app, 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 this app, 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, this app 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!

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!

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.