What is Perseus Tufts Edu?

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, deep-reading tools, and open-source software.

How do I reference the Perseus Digital Library?

To cite a specific work within Perseus, we recommend: Herodotus, The Histories, trans. A. D. Godley (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920), Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126 (accessed April 17, 2012).

Is Perseus free?

Perseus is a contributor to the Open Content Alliance. The project also supports the Internet Archive. All texts and materials believed to be in the public domain are available for free download in XML format from Perseus 4.0.

What is Perseus website?

ACCESS: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu. Perseus, son of Zeus and slayer of the Gorgon Medusa, is an appropriate namesake for this ambitious project. This site is exactly what its title implies: an enormous, searchable collection of Ancient Greek literature, art, and archaeology.

Where is the Perseus Project at Tufts University?

Perseus contact and support information. 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:

Who are the funders of the Perseus Project?

The Perseus Project has been supported by various funders throughout its history: Perseus has been most recently funded by the Alpheios 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 .

What can I download from the Perseus library?

New texts: the English Bohn and Greek Kaibel editions of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists and Harpocration. Corrections to Greek and Latin lexicons, Oppian, Smith’s Geography, Pausanias, Cassius Dio. CIDOC RDF download links added for Art and Architecture data. The navigation bar and text sidebars now include links to the Perseus Catalog.