Announcements

• October 7, 2009:
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library: We have added many new authors and texts to our collection, including Seneca, Quintilian, Flaccus, Cicero, Aulus Gellius, Ammianus and Petronius.
• March 31, 2009:
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library: You can now view the places mentioned in the Perseus Digital Library by collection or text through the Google Maps interface. Links to view places in a text can be found on a text page, in the Places box. Places are automatically extracted, so please email the webmaster if you notice errors.
• March 16, 2009:
  • New job announcement: Perseus is seeking a Greek Treebank Editor to supervise the creation of a syntactic database for classical Greece with 1,000,000 words - one of the most promising instruments ever produced for the study of Greek linguistics, literary style, and lexicography. We encourage graduate students who could build their dissertation work on this project, as well as classicists with PhD in hand, to consider applying.
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library:
    • Many improvements to the Art & Archaeology data and interface. You can now search the A&A data and image captions.
    • Euclid's Elements have been added, as well as a large number of Plutarch texts, edited by Bernadotte Perrin. Links to these texts can be found on the Greek and Roman collection page.
• September 23, 2008:
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library:
  • The first release of the Arabic Collection.
  • Search tools have been refined.
  • Navigation in 4.0 has been updated.
  • Art & Archaeology data has been updated. The A & A Artifact Browser can now be found under the Collections tab
  • General information on the Perseus Project has been added: Research, Grants, Research Opportunities, and Job Opportunities.
  • A dedicated Open Source section.
  • Our list of Publications has been moved to the About section.
  • 4.0 Help pages have been updated.
  • Additional hardware has been added to the Perseus backend servers.

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

The Perseus Project is funded by the Alpheios Project, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, 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, 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 National Science Foundation, the Packard Humanities Institute, Xerox Corporation, Boston University, and Harvard University.