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Perseus News and Updates

  • Please visit the Perseus Updates blog for news on project activities, research, and initiatives. We invite you to contact us via email to the Perseus webmaster if you have any comments, questions, or concerns.


  • April 24, 2019: Current Projects and Initiatives
    • Work continues on the Scaife Viewer, our first new reading environment in nearly 15 years. For more, please read About the Scaife Viewer and send us your comments.
    • 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. Look for new OGL materials in the Scaife Viewer.
    • News, help and support-related content for this site ("Perseus 4.0") will be updated periodically, but the site collections and infrastructure are no longer under active development as we begin the transition to the next phase of Perseus.

Release Announcements

  • October 2013

    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.

  • June 17, 2013

    The navigation bar and text sidebars now include links to the Perseus Catalog.

  • April 30, 2013

    We have released fixes to typos and other errors in various texts.

  • February 27,2013

    We have released bug fixes to the following items: the display of Greek letters used to identify subsections in the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, broken links to dictionaries in the Word Study tool, and the use of collection limits in searches producing hits in document metadata.

  • April 25, 2012

    We have addressed some performance issues with the site and fixed a crash in the vocabulary tool. Although some performance problems may persist, we hope that the overall experience is improved. As always, feedback is welcome. Feel free to send detailed error reports to the webmaster.

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Popular Texts

Art and Archaeology

Aegina, Temple of Aphaia
Silver obol from Athens
Satyr on Attic red figure vase
The Bartlett Head

Exhibits

The Ancient Olympics Hercules: Greece's Greatest Hero