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Welcome to Perseus 4.0, also known as the

Perseus Hopper.
Read more on the Perseus version history.
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Perseus Updates
January 9, 2017: Update on the new MA
in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies at
Tufts
In September 2016, we announced the
creation of a new MA at Tufts University,
starting in Fall 2017. Applications due
February 15, 2017. We now have a model
for the opening semester, during which
students will develop core skills and
systematic exposure to work in Digital
Classics as a whole in two complementary
courses. Read more ...

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Caesar, Gallic War (English,
Latin)
Catullus, Carmina (English,
Latin)
Cicero, In Catilinam I (English,
Latin)
Vergil, Aeneid (English, Latin)
Herodotus, Histories (English,
Greek)
Homer, Odyssey (English,
Greek)
Plato, Republic (English,
Greek)
Tom Martin, Overview of
Classical Greek History from
Mycenae to Alexander
(English)

December 22, 2016: A New Version of

Perseus and Academic Partnerships
An earlier blog entry pointed to a draft
description of work on a new Perseus that
we expect will appear, in some fashion, as a
formal Request for Proposals from Leipzig in
early January 2017. One reason to circulate
this description is to get feedback. A second
is to be able to explore different approaches
before any formal RFP emerges. Read more
...

ArtandArchaeology

December 21, 2016: Draft for a Request

for Proposals for a new Perseus Digital
Library
We expect that Leipzig University will
release a formal RFP early in January. Until
and unless Leipzig University does so, there
are no promises or guarantees of any kind.
Our goal is to give the community a chance
to comment and potential contractors an
opportunity to begin thinking about what
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Aegina, Temple of
Aphaia

Silver obol from

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they might do. Read more ...

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Release Announcements
October 2013
New texts: the English Bohn and Greek
Kaibel editions of Athenaeus'
Deipnosophists and Harpocration.

The Bartlett Head

Satyr on Attic red
figure vase

Exhibits

Corrections to Greek and Latin lexicons,

Oppian, Smith's Geography, Pausanias,
Cassius Dio.
CIDOC RDF download links added for Art and
Architecture data.
June 17, 2013
The navigation bar and text sidebars now
include links to the Perseus Catalog.
April 30, 2013
We have released fixes to typos and other
errors in various texts.
February 27,2013
We have released bug fixes to the following
items: the display of Greek letters used to
identify subsections in the Lewis and Short
Latin Dictionary, broken links to dictionaries
in the Word Study tool, and the use of
collection limits in searches producing hits
in document metadata.
April 25, 2012
We have addressed some performance
issues with the site and fixed a crash in the
vocabulary tool. Although some performance
problems may persist, we hope that the
overall experience is improved. As always,
feedback is welcome. Feel free to send
detailed error reports to the webmaster.
Read older announcements...
Perseus contact and support information.

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Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department

of the Classics, Tufts University.
The Perseus Project has been supported by various funders
throughout its history:
Perseus has been most recently funded by the Alpheios
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Project, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of

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

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