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Resource: Perseus Digital Library
Written by David Andrew Collier   
Tuesday, 05 August 2008 12:12

Perseus Digital Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Many Classicists already know of Perseus. Begun at Tufts University in Boston, Perseus is an online collection of Greek and Latin texts, as well as commentaries, dictionaries, inscriptions, and other primary sources. It is an excellent resource and can be a great way to work with a text and some standard commentaries with little hassle or running around a library.


There are the occasional drawbacks. Perseus often has server issues and be extremely slow and frustrating to deal with. Sometimes the word reference tools are way off. But a new java hopper interface and the ability to let users rate the accuracy of a dictionary reference have done wonders to remedy both of these problems. They have also recently provided their source code for download and implementation on your own server, though there is little documentation at this point to help.