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July 24, 2005
A New Search Tool for Classical Literature
Alun has a beta site version of a tool to search the Perseus Project. As Alun says,
If you’re not a classicist (and even if you are), the Perseus Project is a database of translations of classical texts based on the Loeb translations. It’s based at Tufts, but I prefer the Berlin mirror, because I can actually access that. As wonderful as it is, I have a problem searching it. You can search single texts, and blocks of a few texts but, at least with Leicester PCs, you can’t search every original source in one go. So if I want to find all references to ghosts then I have to plod through each text one or so at a time, usually with zero results. It’s a bit time consuming.
The Perseus Project is a little more than this. They have a growing amount of material that is not in Loeb and the have secondary source material as well.
One of the current versions of the tool has a few bugs but this is a great service. And it will be even better when it is complete.
For those who know even less about Classics, the Loeb Classical Library is a rather large set of all the major and a few of the minors classical authors with the Greek or Latin on one page and English translation on the other. I bought my first Loebs in 1995, The Apostolic Fathers, published as two volumes for $3.50 each. A now have over fifty volumes. Today the volumes sell for $21.50 but they are still a great bargain.
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That's good to hear. I took ancient greek as my foriegn language in college and use Perseus occassionally (although at this point my greek is a little rusty).
Posted by: afarensis at July 24, 2005 8:50 AM
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