Announcements

• October 22, 2010:
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library: A new release of the website is now available. We have added new texts for current authors, such as Plutarch and Servius.
• February 5, 2010:
  • We have fixed the problem with viewing full-size images in IE7 and 8.
• February 4, 2010:
  • A new release of our source code is now available on SourceForge. Updated data and text files are also available here.
• February 1, 2010:
  • Become a fan of Perseus on Facebook!
  • Problems viewing images on IE 7 and 8: We are aware of the problem with viewing full-size images through IE 7 or 8 and are working to fix it. For the best experience on Perseus, we always recommend using the latest version of Firefox.
• December 15, 2009:
  • Updates to Perseus Digital Library: The Vocabulary Tool is now available. For more information about this tool, please see the help page.
• 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.

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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.