What Was New

(16 December, 1997) Greek and Latin Grammars are now on-line
(28 October, 1997) Announcing the first release of Latin texts and translations, along with text tools!
(10 July, 1997) The first electronic edition of the works of Christopher Marlowe includes the Doctor Faustus A and B texts and the English Faust Book.
(7 July, 1997) Check out the Hercules exhibit: everything you ever wanted to know about Greece's greatest hero.
(12 April, 1997) Using the Perseus architecture catalog, Nicolas Stringos built a 1 cm: 1.1 m scale model of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis. Good work!
Take a look at Nicolas' Parthenon model.
(22 January, 1997) The Perseus Project guide to full installation of Perseus 2.0 on an external hard drive.
(9 December, 1996) Perseus is pleased to host the WWW version of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri. Search and browse through nearly 500 volumes of Greek texts from ancient Egypt.
(15 October, 1996) The complete Perseus 2.0 User's Guide by William Merrill is now on-line.
(10 October, 1996) The Perseus lookup tool (affectionately known as the select-o-rama) finally has a web interface. This tool brings together data from the art and archaeology catalogs, the encyclopedia, the browser, the English index, and the English-Greek word search and gives them a simple standard interface. In addition, the lookup tool deals with alternate names such as Heracles/Hercules and Athena/Athene. Try the entries for Apollo and Delphi for some examples.
(26 September, 1996) Check out Laurel Bowman's new Greek myth WWW site.
(18 September, 1996) Announcing the beginning of a Roman Perseus. Including new photography of Roman art utilizing, where appropriate, Quicktime VR for dynamic "panoramas" and rotations of objects in space.
(5 September, 1996) If you've put pictures of Greek or Roman sites, buildings, sculpture, vases, coins, or other objects on the Web and would like users of Perseus to see links to them, send mail to webmaster@perseus.tufts.edu. You'll get an account and password to add pictures with this simple form.
(29 August, 1996) There have been a number of changes (and we hope improvements) to the LSJ interface:
- we now try to add indentation to show the hiearchical structure of the lexicon entries, making the longer entries much easier to read;
- we now at last have begun to handle cross references to other words within the lexicon;
- if you go from a Perseus Greek text into LSJ, all the citations from that author in the LSJ entry should be highlighted.
Please send us feedback on these changes and, as always, report problems!
(28 August, 1996) Download a new version of Pandora along with Perseus Tk d1. We now have a working version of Pandora that works with both Windows and the Mac, as well as corrects some known problems of existing pandora. It should also be a bit faster -- a full corpus search of the TLG on our Pentium box with a 2X CD ROM took 27 minutes. Searching individual authors can be much faster -- a search of Galen took less than one minute on our PowerMac.
(9 August, 1996) Download Perseus Tk d1. Perseus Tk is the working name for the platform independent version of the Perseus Project Database. It runs on Mac and Windows and has an interface similar to Perseus 2.0. This release contains the philological tools.
(16 July, 1996) A major new revision of all the Greek searching tools is now available. Highlights include: 1) the ability to input Greek in "Latin transliteration" as well as in Beta code; 2) the ability to input oisete to search for pherô; 3) a major rewrite of the words in proximity search to make it somewhat easier to use; 4) an entire new front end to the Greek word search program allowing you to view the paradigm of a verb (e.g., take a look at pherô in Plato) or to search for individual words by grammatical category (e.g., look for forms of pherô in the optative).
(2 July, 1996) Images from the Toledo Museum of Art are now available.

(27 March, 1996) Try the live site plans of the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi and the City of Athens. Clicking on the triangular buttons shows you a picture from that point; clicking on the highlighted regions zooms you in or gives you a description of the highlighted building. Look for links to these plans at the bottom of site descriptions (e.g. Athens).

(13 March, 1996) More "improvements" to the philological tools: we can now deal with much longer lists of words. Try looking for all Greek words that end in -sis. These tend to be abstractions and you can use the word frequency tool to see which authors tend more towards such jargony words. Greek Morphology is moderately ambiguous but the rough totals supplied are a useful starting point for further work.
(7 March, 1996) Interested in the search tools and lexicon? Take a look at New Technologies for Reading: the Lexicon and the Digital Library.
(4 March, 1996) Thomas Martin's extensive Overview of Archaic & Classical Greek History. Over 3000 links into Perseus' primary materials. An expanded print version of this overview is now available from Yale University Press.
(4 March, 1996) Perseus makes Yahoo's Picks of the Week.
(3 March, 1996) Check out our tentative plans for taking a first step towards a Roman Perseus.
(28 February, 1996) This site is awarded four stars, the highest rating, by The McKinley Group, editors of Magellan, an Internet directory of nearly 2 million sites and 40,000 reviews.
(13 February, 1996) Greek texts can now show you what words have citations in the LSJ. Here is the watchman's speech from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, for example.
(13 February, 1996) How to embed Greek in your own documents
(20 January, 1996) To accommodate Perseus' ever-expanding features on the web, a new improved homepage and navigation header (above) have been installed for your convenience. The previous version of the homepage is still here, though, for posterity!
Sir James Frazer's summary of Greek mythology, with links to Apollodorus' Library Don't let the title fool you! This is an ancient Greek handbook of mythology. It also has the translation and extensive notes by Sir James Frazer (of the Golden Bough). The notes represent ideas about mythology that few (if any) still pursue, but the references to other ancient sources (many of them online on this Web site) are outstanding. If you are interested in the main versions of a Greek myth, Apollodorus and Frazer's notes are the place to start.
Perseus is rated in the top 5% of WWW sites by the Point Reviews.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World now has a very nice set of introductory links for Perseus on the Web.
Check out the Tufts Classics Department web pages.
(8 November, 1995) Perseus/FIPSE Meeting, May 12-14.
(7 November, 1995) Interesting articles in the Perseus encyclopedia.
Euclid's Elements with Sir Thomas Heath's commentary.
Search for Greek words in proximity: Example.
(October, , 1995) Website selected to be featured in the monthly websurfers' newsletter of
New English-Greek Word Search: Find Greek words that contain a given English word or words in their definition in the LSJ9 or the Middle Liddell.
Examples: Greek words whose definitions contain "wealth" and Greek words whose definitions contain words beginning with "goat".