An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (copyright)

Art and Archaeology

Greek vases, coins, sculpture, and sites in the Perseus database. Includes links to word search of database, indices, images and examples.

Primary Texts

Greek texts and translations, English word searches of the texts, and resources for textual studies.

Check out our morphological tools!

About Perseus

Information on the project, the software, the authors, this site, and more.

Teaching with Perseus

Classes currently using Perseus, and a study, supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Higher Education (FIPSE), about how Perseus is being used. More to come!

Related Web Sites

Links to Perseus-related sites and select other art & archaeology sites.

What's New

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.
Perseus/FIPSE Meeting, May 12-14. (November 8)
Interesting articles in the Perseus encyclopedia. (November 7)
Euclid's Elements with Sir Thomas Heath's commentary.
Search for Greek words in proximity: Example.
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".

The Perseus Project is supported by the Annenberg/CPB Project, the National Science Foundation, Apple Computer and the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Packard Humanities Institute, the Getty Grant program, Xerox Corporation, Boston University, Harvard University, and the Fund to Improve Post-Secondary Education. Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, headquartered at the Classics Department, Tufts University.

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