ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a narrative account of the project, setting out the practical issues, while trying to draw attention to the generic and methodological issues. The Leverhulme grant allowed us to appoint Gabriel Bodard as a research assistant; Gabriel was completing a PhD on Greek tragedy, and had worked for a year at the TLG project. Another crucial aspect of the project is its relationship to other digital undertakings in the field. Epigraphers have been exploring ways of using computers to organize their data for at least 20 years. Much of the pioneering work was done with Latin texts, since there were no fount problems. There are two large databases which put such material online, grouped as the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. In Greek epigraphy the pattern has been somewhat different: the lead was taken by David Packard, who sponsored the development of a collection of epigraphic texts in electronic form.
