The Perseus Digital Library

Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief

Tufts University

Perseus Contents

• Classics
  Greek, Latin, Archaeology
• Papyri
  Duke Data Bank
• English Renaissance
  Shakespeare, Marlowe, ...
• London
  Bolles Collection
• California
  
• Upper Midwest
  
• Chesapeake
  Library of Congress
  
• Tufts History
  Since 1852
• Boyle Papers
  History of Science

Announcements

• Hardware problems!: A key server in the Perseus site has experienced intermittent hardware problems. We are in the process of upgrading this hardware and creating a more stable hardware environment. We apologize for the delays and hope to have the problem resolved in a few days.

• Perseus 4.0 released -- a new implementation of the Perseus Digital Library.

  Perseus 4.0, a new Java-based version of the Perseus Digital Library, is available for testing. It contains a faster, more manageable back-end and a more modern look and feel. Many features of Perseus are now available as XML services -- for example, developers can extract well-formed XML fragments of primary sources with full TEI-conformant markup in order to create their own front ends. Read more...

• What did an educated Roman know about the world? We've added Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic Natural History, (search), a remarkable snapshot of the state of Geography, Ethnography, Astronomy, Biology, and Geology in the early Roman empire.
• New reference works: Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (search), and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (search). Although both works are more than a hundred years old, they remain valuable sources for information about the classical world.
• Seen the movie and want to read the book? We've added Benner's commentary on selections from the Iliad, including a short Homeric Grammar.
• New Roman History texts: Appian and Polybius

• View all recent announcements...

Perseus contact and support information.

Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University.

The Perseus Project is funded by the Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, private donations, and Tufts University.
Support for the project has been provided by the Annenberg/CPB Project, Apple Computer, the Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education part of the U.S. Department of Education, the Getty Grant program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Modern Language Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Packard Humanities Institute, Xerox Corporation, Boston University, and Harvard University.