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Perseus Tools and Information

Tools for searching and browsing the Perseus Digital Library
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Art & Archaeology Browser.
Find art & archaeology objects with specific properties.

Atlas Tool.
Draw interactive maps of the whole world.

Collection Viewer.
View summary information about all collections in the digital library, grouped by subject.

Dictionary Entry Lookup.
Search the headwords of Greek and Latin dictionaries.

English Index.
Search all English text in the Perseus digital library.

English to Greek Word Search.
This allows you to search the English definitions in LSJ.

English to Latin Word Search.
This allows you to search the English definitions in Lewis and Short.

Greek Morphological Analysis.
This tool analyses Greek words and tells you their possible morphological analyses and the dictionary entries from which they could be derived.

Greek Vocabulary Tool.
Generate vocabulary lists for Greek texts.

Greek Words in Context.
Find instances of one or more words appearing in Greek texts. Useful in searching for Greek idioms and phrases.

Latin Morphological Analysis.
This tool analyses Latin words and tells you their possible morphological analyses and the dictionary entries from which they could be derived.

Latin Vocabulary Tool.
Generate vocabulary lists for Latin texts.

Latin Words in Context.
Find instances of one or more words appearing in Latin texts. Useful in searching for Latin idioms and phrases.

London Atlas.
View maps of London from 1780 to the present, and plot streets and buildings.

Lookup Tool.
This tool uses keywords and phrases to help you locate a subject within the Perseus library, combining terms from the art and archaeology catalogs, primary and secondary texts, encyclopedia, image captions, and bibliography.

Perseus Table of Contents.
Use this tool to browse the contents of the Perseus Digital Library.

Virtual Reality Interface.
Use this tool to manipulate and view the virtual reality contents of the Perseus Digital Library.

Texts

About Perseus.
General information about the Perseus Project. (English) (search this work)

The Bolles collection map browser: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
This list is a summary of the most frequently asked questions concerning the Bolles collection map browser. (English) (search this work)

Comparison of Perseus Digital Library vs. Perseus CDs .
An overview of the contents of the Perseus digital library compared with Perseus CD-Rom publications. (English) (search this work)

Greek Font Display Help.
A guide to displaying Greek fonts in the Perseus digital library. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Atlas: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
This list is a summary of the most frequently asked questions concerning the Perseus atlas. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Copyrights and Permissions.
This document summarizes the holders of copyright in the Perseus digital library. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
This list is a summary of the most frequently asked questions received by the Perseus webmaster. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Lookup Tool Help.
A guide to using the Perseus Lookup Tool. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Table of Contents Help.
A guide to using the Perseus table of contents, with sample questions and illustrations. (English) (search this work)

Policies of the Perseus Digital Library.
This document describes the policies of the Perseus Digital Library regarding warranty, access, and copyright. (English) (search this work)

Step by Step Guide to the Perseus Atlas.
A guide to using the Perseus atlas, with illustrated examples. (English) (search this work)

Text and Word Study Tools Help.
A guide to using Perseus texts and word study tools. (English) (search this work)

Using Perseus Timelines.
A guide to using Perseus timelines, with sample questions and illustrations. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Project Research Preprints

Research articles produced by members of the Perseus staff
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Bibliography of Perseus research articles.
Bibliography of research works by the Perseus staff and articles by others about the Perseus Digital Library, sorted by descending date. (English) (search this work)

Robert F. Chavez, Thomas L. Milbank. London Calling: GIS, VR, and the Victorian Period.
The Bolles Collection of Tufts University represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources on the history and topography of Victorian London. Texts, images, maps, and three-dimensional reconstructions are all interconnected forming a body of material that transcends the limits of print publication and exploits the flexibility of the electronic medium. The Perseus Digital Library has incorporated Geographic Information System and Virtual Reality technologies in a set of tools intended to help readers synthesize and visualize the numerous temporal and spatial interconnections between Bolles Collection materials. The tools, which are applicable to any large assemblage of related documents, also help readers grasp the complex temporal-spatial interactions that shape historical materials in general. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Colati. Collaborative Project: Managing Authority Lists for Customized Linking and Visualization: A Service for the National STEM Digital Library.
We propose two broad classes of service to the NSDL: automatic linking for key words and phrases, and authority control usinga variety of authority lists such as glossaries, encyclopedias, and subject hierarchies. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Crane, Robert F. Chavez, Anne Mahoney, Thomas L. Milbank, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, David A. Smith. Drudgery and Deep Thought: Designing Digital Libraries for the Humanities.
Expanded version of an article in CACM, spring 2001. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Crane. From Greece to Rome: Building a Roman Perseus.
Forthcoming, Journal for the Association of Classical Teachers, 2000. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane, David A. Smith, Clifford E. Wulfman. Building a Hypertextual Digital Library in the Humanities: A Case Study on London.
This paper describes the creation of a new humanities digital library collection: 11,000,000 words and 10,000 images representing books, images and maps on pre-twentieth century London and its environs. The London collection contained far more dense and precise information than the materials from the Greco-Roman world on which we had previously concentrated. The London collection thus allowed us to explore new problems of data structure, manipulation, and visualization. This paper contrasts our model for how humanities digital libraries are best used with the assumptions that underlie many academic digital libraries on the one hand and more literary hypertexts on the other. Since encoding guidelines such as those from the TEI provide collection designers with far more options than any one project can realize, this paper describes what structures we used to organize the collection and why. We particularly emphasize the importance of mining historical authority lists (encyclopedias, gazetteers, etc.) and then generating automatic span-to-span links within the collection. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane. Extending a Digital Library: Beginning a Roman Perseus.
This paper describes how the Perseus Project moved from Greece to Rome. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. New Technology and New Roles: The Need for Corpus Editors.
Digital libraries challenge humanists and other academics to rethink the relationship between technology and their work. At the Perseus Project, we have seen the rise of a new combination of skills. The Corpus Editor manages a collection of materials that are thematically coherent and focused but are too large to be managed solely with the labor-intensive techniques of traditional editing. The corpus editor must possess a degree of domain specific knowledge and technical expertise that virtually no established graduate training provides. This new position poses a challenge to humanists as they train and support members of the field pursuing new, but necessary tasks. (English) (search this work)

Maria Daniels. Is Bigger Better? Web Delivery of High-Resolution Images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Paper written for the session "Making Data Work: Functional Design Strategies" at Museums and the Web 2000, April 17-19, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, organized by Archives and Museum Informatics. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney. Creating an Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication On Line. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney. Explicit and Implicit Searching in the Perseus Digital Library.
From Information Doors, pre-conference workshop at HT00 conference, San Antonio, May 2000. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, David A. Smith, Clifford E. Wulfman. Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager.
The Perseus Digital Library includes tools for morphologicalanalysis; encoding and presentation of lexica; metadata andcataloguing; abstract mapping of various SGML and XML DTDs; and display of document sections. The system was developed for AncientGreek and has been extended to support Latin and Italian. We describehow we are generalizing this document management system for other languagesand for use by other projects. The original implementation did notclearly separate infrastructure from project-specific data and configuration. Determining which data elements, template files, and routines arepart of the system and which are part of the various corpora has helpedus determine what is crucial to the infrastructure of a multi-lingual digitallibrary, which naming conventions and meta-data standards should be sharedamong co-operating projects, and what features can be configurable by individualprojects. One goal of the present work is to make the Perseus DLinfrastructure available as open-source software. (English) (search this work)

Perseus Research Preprints: Collection Overview. (English) (search this work)

Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Anne Mahoney, Gregory R. Crane. Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions.
Corpus editions can only be useful to scholars when users know what to expect of the texts. We argue for text quality indicators, both general and domain-specific. (English) (search this work)

David A. Smith, Gregory Crane. Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical Digital Library.
Geographic interfaces provide natural, scalable visualizations for many digital library collections, but the wide range of data in digital libraries presents some particular problems for identifying and disambiguating place names. We describe the toponym-disambiguation system in the Perseus digital library and evaluate its performance. Name categorization varies significantly among different types of documents, but toponym disambiguation performs at a high level of precision and recall with a gazetteer an order of magnitude larger than most other applications. (English) (search this work)

David A. Smith, Anne Mahoney, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. The Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library.
We describe a generalized toolset developed by the Perseus Project to manage XML documents in the context of a large, heterogeneous digital library. The system manages multiple DTDs through mappings from elements in the DTD to abstract document structures. The abstraction of document metadata, both structural and descriptive, facilitates the development of application-level tools for knowledge management and document presentation. We discuss the implementation of the XML back end and describe applications for cross citation retrieval, toponym extraction and plotting, automatic hypertext generation, morphology, and word co-occurrence. (English) (search this work)

Greek and Roman Materials

Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome
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Aeschines. Speeches. (Greek)   (Aeschin. 3) (search this work)

Aeschines. Speeches. (English)   (Aeschin. 3) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Ag.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Ag.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Robert Browning. (English)   (Aesch. Ag.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Eumenides. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Eum.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Eumenides. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Eum.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Libation Bearers. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Lib.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Libation Bearers. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Lib.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Persians. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Pers.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Persians. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Pers.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. PB) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. PB) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Seven) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Seven) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Suppliant Women. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek)   (Aesch. Supp.) (search this work)

Aeschylus. Suppliant Women. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)   (Aesch. Supp.) (search this work)

Andocides. Speeches. (Greek)   (Andoc. 4) (search this work)

Andocides. Speeches. (English)   (Andoc. 4) (search this work)

Antiphon. Speeches. ed. K. J. Maidment. (Greek)   (Antiph. 6) (search this work)

Antiphon. Speeches. ed. K. J. Maidment. (English)   (Antiph. 6) (search this work)

Apollodorus. Library and Epitome. ed. Sir James George Frazer. (Greek)   (Apollod. E.) (search this work)

Apollodorus. Library and Epitome. ed. Sir James George Frazer. (English)   (Apollod. E.) (search this work)

Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica. (Greek)   (A. R.) (search this work)

Appian. The Civil Wars. ed. L. Mendelssohn. (Greek)   (App. BC) (search this work)

Appian. The Civil Wars. ed. Horace White. (English)   (App. BC) (search this work)

Appian. The Foreign Wars. ed. L. Mendelssohn. (Greek)   (App. Syr.) (search this work)

Appian. The Foreign Wars. ed. Horace White. (English)   (App. Syr.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Acharnians. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Ach.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Acharnians. (English)   (Aristoph. Ach.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Birds. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Birds) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Birds. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Birds) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Clouds. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Cl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Clouds. ed. William James Hickie. (English)   (Aristoph. Cl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Ecclesiazusae. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Eccl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Ecclesiazusae. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Eccl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Frogs. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Frogs) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Frogs. ed. Matthew Dillon. (English)   (Aristoph. Frogs) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Knights. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Kn.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Knights. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Kn.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Lysistrata. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Lys.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Lysistrata. ed. Jack Lindsay. (English)   (Aristoph. Lys.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Peace. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Peace) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Peace. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Peace) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Plutus. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Pl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Plutus. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Pl.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Thes.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Thes.) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Wasps. ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. (Greek)   (Aristoph. Wasps) (search this work)

Aristophanes. Wasps. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (English)   (Aristoph. Wasps) (search this work)

Aristotle. Athenian Constitution. ed. Kenyon. (Greek)   (Aristot. Ath. Pol.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Athenian Constitution. ed. H. Rackham. (English)   (Aristot. Ath. Pol.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Economics. (Greek)   (Aristot. Econ.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Economics. (English)   (Aristot. Econ.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Eudemian Ethics. (Greek)   (Aristot. Eud. Eth.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Eudemian Ethics. (English)   (Aristot. Eud. Eth.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Metaphysics. (Greek)   (Aristot. Met.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Metaphysics. (English)   (Aristot. Met.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. ed. J. Bywater. (Greek)   (Aristot. Nic. Eth.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. ed. H. Rackham. (English)   (Aristot. Nic. Eth.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Poetics. (Greek)   (Aristot. Poet.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Poetics. (English)   (Aristot. Poet.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Politics. (Greek)   (Aristot. Pol.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Politics. (English)   (Aristot. Pol.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Rhetoric. ed. W. D. Ross. (Greek)   (Aristot. Rh.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Rhetoric. ed. J. H. Freese. (English)   (Aristot. Rh.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Virtues and Vices. ed. I. Bekker. (Greek)   (Aristot. Vir.) (search this work)

Aristotle. Virtues and Vices. ed. H. Rackham. (English)   (Aristot. Vir.) (search this work)

Caesar Augustus. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. (Latin)   (Aug. Anc.) (search this work)

Bacchylides. Odes. (Greek)   (Bacchyl. 15) (search this work)

Bacchylides. Odes. (English)   (Bacchyl. 15) (search this work)

The Venerable Bede. Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum. ed. Charles Plummer. (Latin) (search this work)

Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Consolatio Philosophiae. (Latin)   (Boe. Cons.) (search this work)

C. Julius Caesar. Commentaries on the Civil War. ed. William Duncan. (English)   (Caes. Civ.) (search this work)

C. Julius Caesar. De Bello Civili. (Latin)   (Caes. Civ.) (search this work)

C. Julius Caesar. De bello Gallico. (Latin)   (Caes. Gal.) (search this work)

C. Julius Caesar. Gallic War. (English)   (Caes. Gal.) (search this work)

Callimachus. Hymns and Epigrams. (Greek)   (Call. H. 6) (search this work)

C. Valerius Catullus. Carmina. ed. E. T. Merrill. (Latin)   (Catul.) (search this work)

Gaius Valerius Catullus. Carmina. ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton. (English)   (Catul.) (search this work)

Gaius Valerius Catullus. Carmina. ed. Leonard C. Smithers. (English)   (Catul.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. De Oratore. ed. A. S. Wilkins. (Latin)   (Cic. de Orat.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Epistulae ad Familiares. ed. L. C. Purser. (Latin)   (Cic. Fam.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Letters. ed. Evelyn Shuckburgh. (English)   (Cic. Q. fr.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Letters to and from Brutus. ed. L. C. Purser. (Latin)   (Cic. ad Brut.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Letters to and from Quintus. ed. L. C. Purser. (Latin)   (Cic. Q. fr.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Letters to Atticus. ed. L. C. Purser. (Latin)   (Cic. Att.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Cum Senatui gratias egit, Cum populo gratias egit, De domo sua, De haruspicum responso, Pro Sestio, In Vatinium, De provinciis consularibus, Pro Balbo. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. Vat.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, In C. Verrem. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. Ver.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Pro Milone, Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, Philippicae I-XIV. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. Phil.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Pro P. Quinctio, Pro Q. Roscio comoedo, Pro A. Caecina, De lege agraria contra Rullum, Pro C. Rabiro perduellionis reo, Pro L. Flacco, In L. Pisonem, Pro C. Rabiro Postumo. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. Rab. Post.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Pro Sex. Roscio, De imperio Cn. Pompei, Pro Cluentio, In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Pro Caelio. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. S. Rosc.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orationes: Pro Tullio, Pro Fonteio, Pro Sulla, Pro Archia, Pro Plancio, Pro Scauro. ed. Albert Clark. (Latin)   (Cic. Tul.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orations: for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Coelius, Milo, Ligarius, etc.. ed. C. D. Yonge. (English)   (Cic. Vat.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orations: for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres. ed. C. D. Yonge. (English)   (Cic. Ver.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orations: The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics). ed. C. D. Yonge. (English)   (Cic. Phil.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Orations: Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc.. ed. C. D. Yonge. (English)   (Cic. Tul.) (search this work)

M. Tullius Cicero. Speech before Roman Citizens on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius, Defendant Against the Charge of Treason. ed. William Blake Tyrrell. (English)   (Cic. Rab. Perd.) (search this work)

Q. Tullius Cicero. Essay on Running for Consul. ed. L. C. Purser. (Latin)   (Q. Cic. Pet.) (search this work)

Demades. On the Twelve Years. (Greek)   (Demad. 1) (search this work)

Demades. On the Twelve Years. (English)   (Demad. 1) (search this work)

Demosthenes. Exordia. ed. W. Rennie. (Greek)   (Dem. Ex.) (search this work)

Demosthenes. Exordia. ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt. (English)   (Dem. Ex.) (search this work)

Demosthenes. Letters. ed. W. Rennie. (Greek)   (Dem. L.) (search this work)

Demosthenes. Letters. ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt. (English)   (Dem. L.) (search this work)

Demosthenes. Speeches 1-10. (Greek)   (Dem. 9) (search this work)