This data set contains a full conversion of Greek texts available in the Perseus Digital Library and the Open Greek and Latin Project to the Text Fabric data format. The main advantage of the Text Fabric datatype over the original TEI XML format is that it utilizes a strict separation of text and annotation in a flat data structure. At the same time, it permits multiple distinct formats of the same text as well as an unlimited depth of (embedded) annotations. Because of its flat data structure, it facilitates easy and clean procedures to analyze, transform, and enrich the available data. Many of these processes are very difficult to conduct while departing from the hierarchically organized XML tree representation.

License notes are attached to the metadata of each .tf-file (@availability). If no availability note exists, the license attributed to the data set as a whole is to be followed. License notes attached to each .tf-file are always to be followed over the general license.