ΛαΤεΧ in Greek

There are various possibilities to include Greek text in your LaTeX document. The three ones I found are these:

1. $\Gamma\rho\varepsilon\varepsilon\kappa$ gets you Γρεεκ allright, but it looks clumsy and lacks all the accents etc.
2. betababel. It does not work with my customised control sequences, and I am too lazy to change them and learn them all anew.
3. polutonikogreek. Neat, slim, worked straight away.

Nos. 2 & 3 use ngerman, so make sure they don’t start a fight with german.

update

I had a slight problem with polutonikogreek and titletoc. Whenever I used something like

which referred to this entry in the preamble:

the .toc-file looked like this at the corresponding place:

Wherever \select@language appeared in the toc, the styling of my toc entries of the subsection level was being messed up. I style subsection entries in the toc in a way that they all get written in a single line. It looks like this:

\titlecontents*{subsection}[3.5em]
   {\vspace{-0.5mm}\itshape\footnotesize}{}%
   {}{\dots\normalfont\footnotesize%
   \thecontentspage.\enspace}%
   [\itshape][\vspace{1mm}]

There are two solutions.

1. Ignore the problem, compile your document, open the .toc-file, delete all \select@language entries and compile again (but only once).
2. Use the following specifications in your preamble:

   \usepackage{ucs}
   \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
   \usepackage[polutonikogreek,german]{babel}
   \newcommand{\gdir}%
      {\foreignlanguage{polutonikogreek}}

   and then put the greek text directly into your document like this:

   \gdir{Πόλεμος}