Note that we only enter materials that are in the public domain and that can be freely redistributed for reuse by others. Perseus digital library princeton university library. Perseus project is a large searchable collection of textual and visual materials illustrating the archaic and classical greek world, beginning with texts by major authors of works in latin. These collections are no longer hosted by the perseus digital library. Cidoc rdf download links added for art and architecture data. Texts of the major greek and latin authors linked to dictionaries, english translations and commentaries. The goal of rperseus is to furnish classicists, textual critics, and r enthusiasts with texts from the classical world. Using perseus digital library, with anna krohn click here to. What is the abbreviation for perseus digital library. Perseus is a nonprofit enterprise, located in the department of the classics, tufts university. National endowment for the humanities 400 7th street, sw washington, dc 20506. An interactive curriculum on classical greek civilization, a proposal to the. It suffers, unfortunately, from very frequent computer hardware problems.
The project involves a plethora of very interesting. This pc software was developed to work on windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, windows 8 or windows 10 and is compatible with 32bit systems. Jumbos football are no match for amherst lord jeffs. The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources. An interactive curriculum on classical greek civilization, a proposal to the annenbergcpb project. Perseus help faq perseus digital library tufts university. Greek and latin grammars and commentaries are also included. Digital collections and archives dca is the archives and manuscript repository of tufts university and is open to the public. If you download individual collections, place the directories downloaded in sgmltexts.
Perseus digital library updates news and announcements from. Perseus digital library has 45 repositories available. The perseus project is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford and somerville, near boston, in the u. Latin poems produced in italy or in italian cultural environments during the period starting from around the birth of dante until the first half of the sixteenth century. May i reuse, copy, or print things i find in perseus. Perseus java hopper was first released in november 2007, under open source licenses. Perseus digital library project gutenberg selfpublishing. The perseus hopper is an opensource project providing a suite of services for. Perseus digital librarys selection criteria are the epoch and the representativeness of the texts in the sense of being part of canonical world literature. What would you like to see added to the perseus digital library, both for use within the perseus site and for download as tei xml under a creative commons license. The third search tool works transparently on the users behalf, and is tightly integrated into the. Once the app is downloaded, and you have your library card, you can set up an account in the app in a few easy steps. Perseus digital library is a big and important digital humanities text collection project with lots of methodological background research, a good choice of texts available, and provides a very wellknown and established online resource for learners and academics alike.
To cite a specific work within perseus, we recommend. The perseus project also known as the perseus hopper is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford and somerville, near boston, in the u. The perseus project is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. The project chose to build a new digital library system, designing it from the start to be interoperable, modular, and opensource. For example, the perseus project is a digital library and currently the fullest open access database of ancient greek and latin texts. The texts, maps, timelines, and other tools of the perseus digital library can help students learn about classical languages and classical culture. To order it please run the perseus application and follow the instructions please note that v5 software licences are locked to the receiver serial number licenses are free for perseus units sold by microtelecom s.
Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Perseus digital library the new york public library. The license file for the full v5 perseus software is available at the price of 59 euro. Founded in 1972 the tlg has collected and digitized most literary texts written in greek from homer to the fall of byzantium in ad 1453. This is probably the standard research tool as it is readily available in libraries and departments. Nevertheless, perseus is a valuable resource for more general studies of history and historical methods both for the range of information it presents and for the tools it provides. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. An xml version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer perseus any modifications you make. Distribute copies of any portions of this resource. The adventures of perseus free version download for pc. The perseus hopper is an opensource project providing a suite of services for interacting with textual collections. In its collection of greek and roman materials, readers will find many of the canonical texts read today. As perseus project, aa perseus digital library is a projekt zum afbau vo ana frein digitaln bibliothek.
The perseus project is a digital library project of tufts university that assembles digital collections of humanities resources. Word level perseus digital library tufts university. On march 15, eldarion released the initial version of the scaife digital library viewer. The perseus project version 4 also known as perseus hopper is a digital library project of tufts university, which is located in medford and somerville, near boston, in the u. Digital library frameworks have emerged in recent years as a sign of the digital library research field becoming more mature and in response to a growing realization that the complex nature of these systems and their multiple facets are impossible to capture by a single definition or perspective candela et al. While the english translations of most texts are available through gutenbergr, rperseusreturns these works in their original languagegreek, latin, and hebrew description. Download all texts 447 mb download individual collections of texts. Download this page pdf download left page pdf download right page. Treebank data syntactic variation cicero caesar vergil jerome svo 5. Suffering at times from computer hardware problems, its resources occasionally are unavailable. The project is mirrored by the max planck society in berlin, germany, as well. The perseus digital library is a partner and supporter of open greek and latin, an. Homer, iliad, book 1, line 1 perseus digital library.
Print or download entire electronic books or entire issues of journals. Perseus beheading medusa new york public library digital collections. We will be performing some maintenance to the catalog today which will ultimately result in many new records and some interface improvements. Perseus digital library the digital classicist wiki. Featured movies all video latest this just in prelinger archives democracy now. Take a journey with the legendary hero perseus in this dynamic and stunning symphonic work as he slays the snakehaired medusa and rescues the princess andromeda. The site includes the full texts of many significant works in greek and in their english translations. The perseus digital library is a substantial test bed of materials on archaic and classical greece, the early roman empire, and early modern europe.
This massive collection includes important greek and latin classics in their original languages. Digital libraries an overview sciencedirect topics. There are many online resources for finding material on health in the ancient world. In collaboration with world leaders in digital humanities from the maryland institute for technology in the humanities mith, umd libraries and the perseus digital library, we want to create persian literature 2. You can consult all these resources together in logeion, which contains copies of the dictionaries that are more frequently updated, and more besides. Digital library project of tufts university with extensive online collections and services related to the history, literature and culture of the grecoroman world. Download this page pdf download left page pdf download right page pdf download whole book pdf.
The texts we make available on this site are practically all used by permission from the perseus project at tufts university, the foremost digital library for the classical world, if not for the humanities in general. But the perseus hopper is just one perseus project mirror. For a specific example, see the download and license information for murrays translation of homers odyssey. For most purposes, this separate database for a single dictionary should now be obsolete. 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.
To order it please run the perseus application and follow the instructions please note that v5 software licences are locked to the receiver serial number licenses are free for perseus units. Print or download a limited number of articles, records, abstracts, or parts of chapters for personal use. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of greek literature from antiquity to the present era. Explicit and implicit searching in the perseus digital library. Perseus digital library perseus digital library includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources.
The authors of the frameworks build upon the previous conceptual work and. Mar 31, 2014 we are pleased to share the following video featuring anna krohn, a digital library analyst and teaching fellow at tufts university, who explains how to use the perseus digital library website to explore ancient greek texts and study individual words in context. Pdf tufts daily, october 28, 1996 tufts digital library. Lewis and short latinenglish lexicon welcome to perseus. From the opening rhythmic figures to the soaring melodies, this dynamic and stunning work will command the attention of your audience and plunge them into a. Download these files if you are generating the data for the hopper yourself. Dcas team of professional archivists provides stewardship for the tufts university archives, several hundred manuscript collections, and other permanently valuable physical and digital archival materials. Perseus must accomplish the impossible to get what he and his people deserve. We are pleased to announce two new perseus catalog wikis. The release is, of course, a first step, but this first step changes the world in at least two fundamental ways. Packard humanities institute phi latin library texts now in version 5.
Texts are licensed under the creative commons sharealike 3. From the opening rhythmic figures to the soaring melodies, this dynamic and stunning work will command the attention of your audience and plunge them into a whirlwind of adventure. The perseus digital library is a partner and supporter of open greek and latin, an international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deepreading tools, and opensource software. We are pleased to share the following video featuring anna krohn, a digital library analyst and teaching fellow at tufts university, who explains how to use the perseus digital library website to explore ancient greek texts and study individual words in context. Perseus collection greek and roman materials search for documents in search only in greek and roman materials. Pdl abbreviation stands for perseus digital library. Perseus digital library national endowment for the. Download the cloudlibrary app from the app store on your mobile device or computer. Take a journey with the legendary hero perseus as he slays the snakehaired medusa and rescues the princess andromeda. In april 20, the perseus digital library joined forces with the open greek and latin project at the university of leipzig.
Perseus copyrights perseus digital library tufts university. Regarding the perseus catalogs data and how it is created. Home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants open source about help greek and roman arabic germanic 19thcentury american renaissance richmond times italian poetry word counts by. Panelists say slavery is still a reality in the third world. Perseus digital library perseus digital library undergraduate contributions undergraduate contributions undergraduate contributions ownership model. Two of them, the wordsearch tool and the perseus lookup tool, allow users to request searches of the texts and the databases of the digital library. Mar 03, 2018 the perseus hopper is software that was built to interact with the digitized primary sources and reference tools that make up the collections of the perseus digital library. Perseus project word study tools tools for searching the perseus collection, looking up englishtolatin or greek terms and dictionary entries, studying individual words, generating. Oct 28, 20 perseus digital library perseus digital library undergraduate contributions undergraduate contributions undergraduate contributions ownership model. Both the complete texts and the code for the perseus hopper are open source.
The perseus hopper is software that was built to interact with the digitized primary sources and reference tools that make up the collections of the perseus digital library. Repository to hold source files related to perseus cite collections xslt 1 1 0 0 updated oct 25, 2016. This download was checked by our builtin antivirus and was rated as virus free. Home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants open source about help greek and roman arabic germanic 19thcentury american renaissance richmond times italian poetry word counts by language.
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