The Perseus Project is a digital library project of Tufts University that assembles digital collections of humanities resources. It is hosted by the Department of Classics. A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. ... Tufts University is a private university located in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ...
The project was founded in 1987 to collect and present materials for study of ancient Greece. It has published two CD-ROMs and established the Perseus Digital Library on the World Wide Web in 1995. The project has expanded its original scope; current collections cover Greco-Roman classics, the English Renaissance, the papers of Edwin Bolles, and the history of Tufts University. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... This NeXTcube used by Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... By region Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Northern Renaissance English Renaissance French Renaissance German Renaissance Polish Renaissance This article is about the cultural movement known as the English Renaissance. ...
The editor-in-chief of the project is Gregory Crane, the Tufts Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship. He has been editor-in-chief since the founding of the Perseus Project.
Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin 1996 Yale University PressISBN 0-300-06956-1 A text written by Prof. Martin to accompany the Perseus Project on-line resources.
The PerseusProject is a digital library that has been under continuous development since the spring of 1987.
We are at present beginning a three-year project, funded by the Fund for the Improvement for Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), and co-directed by Ross Scaife of the University of Kentucky at Lexington.
Perseus is a fundamentally collaborative enterprise that has engaged the efforts of many humanists at a variety of institutions over the course of the past decade.
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