As much as I sometimes have reservations about Google, they do make incredible contributions to the web and humanity (even if it is advertising based):

Inside Google Books: Google releases 500 scans of Ancient Greek and Latin texts for research: “I’m pleased to announce that Google Books is now assisting this work by sharing high-resolution digital scans of over 500 volumes of Ancient Greek and Latin, dating from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. (Of course, downloadable versions of over a million volumes in all fields are available from books.google.com, in a more compressed form.) Jon Orwant and I created this collection using a list of several thousand important Classics volumes identified by our collaborators Professor Gregory Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University. We are analyzing additional volumes and expect to be able to release more high-resolution scans in the future.

These scans will aid the development of accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) algorithms for Ancient Greek, and provide the basis for electronic versions of important editions of these Classics texts; but perhaps their greatest value will be for the development of new methods in this emerging field. We’re honored that Professor Crane called this donation ‘a major contribution to what scholars can do.’”

Of course, it is paramount that we make the decided effort to recover, restore and further curate these texts that have been so delicately (and sometimes not) been handed down to us over the last millenia. Our future as a civilized world depends on preserving these texts that call out to us from a not-so-distant past.

And now for a little Aeschylus:

Amazing times we live in.