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February 12, 2008

Teaching Latin? The Classics? Shakespeare? Turn-of-the-century American history? If you are, you’ll find a dizzying array of resources under one virtual roof at Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library. The library pulls together primary and secondary sources from ancient Greece and Rome, the complete works of Marlowe and Shakespeare with related historical sources, digitized texts from the Library of Congress’ American Memory collection, and more.

The collection of digitized texts about California from 1849 to 1900 would be an excellent place to send history students to gain experience with primary sources. English teachers could use the digitized works of Shakespeare rather than handing out the same old dog-eared, highlighted copies of Hamlet year after year. And although I can’t claim to know a whole lot about “non-literary papyri,” I suspect there are quite a few Latin teachers out there who could use this site as a welcome break from the textbook.

Bonus points to you if you know the story of Perseus, the site’s namesake. (And bonus points to me for not making jokes about parts of this site being “Greek to me.”) -EMILY JACK

Perseus Digital Library

Access Primary Sources Online with the Perseus Digital Library

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February 15th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

[...] Access Primary Sources Online with the Perseus Digital Library – Teaching Latin? The Classics? Shakespeare? Turn-of-the-century American history? If you are, you’ll find a dizzying array of resources under one virtual roof at Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library. [...]

John Jacksonsays:
February 11th, 2009 at 2:43 am

The opening of Perseus has allowed others to port the “data” to other platforms. Two that come to mind are the Diogenes program that runs on Firefox and the Palm Pilot version of the Parsing tool for Greek and Latin and the linked Liddell Scott Lexicon.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/

http://text.handheldclassics.com/