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The Perseus Project

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

Provider: Tufts University


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The Perseus Project from Tufts University is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. This project includes Latin texts and tools, papyri, and Renaissance materials. Perseus contains thousands of images and descriptions of vases, coins, sculpture, buildings, and historical sites.While this digital library holds such a vast amount of materials as to be almost indescribable, some highlights of interest include:

  • The full text of Shakespeare’s plays and related secondary sources such as C.T. Onion’s A Shakespeare Glossary
  • The complete works of Christopher Marlowe
  • Ovid’s Amores and Metamorphoses
  • Historical maps and atlases of London
  • Works by Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Euripides, Homer, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, and several critical works about these authors

Users can graph the places and dates of the works they are exploring on an individualized timeline.