ShareTweet Gregory CraneNovember 15, 2024 A great deal of work towards the new Perseus (Perseus 6) has been going on behind the scenes and that work is now beginning to become visible. James Tauber of Signum University has led the … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane As far as I can tell, things have settled down on Perseus 4. As I understand it, there were two issues. First, Tufts Technology Services moved Perseus 4 to a new hardware platform. In the older platform, … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane May 4, 2024 Updates on the conversion to Perseus 6 are available here. The update itself is published on the PubPub platform and the shift from WordPress (which is the engine behind the Perseus Updates blog) to … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory CraneEditor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital LibraryUpdate as of January 19, 2024. We have now completed work on Beyond Translation (a draft white paper on this work that has been submitted to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities is available here) … Continue reading
ShareTweet GREGORY CRANE The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities asks its projects to submit white papers after completing a project. We have posted a draft of the White Paper for Beyond Translation here and … Continue reading
ShareTweet A lot of work continues to go on behind the scenes as we move to replace the current Perseus 4.0 (the Hopper). Our goal is to finish the transition by fall 2024, with new functionality folded into the Scaife … Continue reading
ShareTweet In 1892, at the age of 27, while serving as teacher of Greek at the Packer College Institute, Emily James Smith published translations for selected works of Lucian. She later served as dean (1894-1900) and then trustee (1900-1905) of … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his younger brother Francis George Watson (1871-1918) are best known for their 1906 publication, the King’s English and the 1926 Modern English Usage, composed by Henry George after the 1918 death of … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane Another update for our NEH-funded Next Thirty Years of Perseus work. We have now updated Lucian. First, we have fixed issues in the Greek for Lucian works 1-52 as editing by A. H. Harmon. These were originally … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane Under our new Perseus the Next Thirty Years NEH grant, we have added a set of new translations for Thucydides, including translations in English, French, German, Italian and Latin. These are now available on Github and (with … Continue reading