The Perseus Digital Library is excited to share that it has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from Schmidt Sciences. Our project “Beyond Translation: Opening up the Human Record” seeks to transform how we … Continue reading
The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to announce an initial release of the new Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser (Figure 1) that is based on CollectionBuilder and uses AirTable to manage the extensive metadata found within the A&A … Continue reading
June 3, 2025 Update: We have seen reports of persistent issues. Additional measures have been implemented to block the source of the problems, but further restrictions may impact core site functionality. The server nodes will automatically reset to clear the … Continue reading
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 Viewer … Continue reading
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 Barnard … Continue reading
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 his … Continue reading
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 entered … Continue reading
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 the … Continue reading
A lot is happening at Perseus. I am writing now to point out the first result from a new NEH grant that formally began one month ago (July 1, 2023). We have released a much revised Greek edition of Philo … Continue reading
I am writing to express my gratitude to the National Endowment for the Humanities for awarding us a new grant entitled “Perseus on the Web: Preparing for the Next Thirty Years.” We will receive just under $348,881 for this project, … Continue reading