Dear all,
-with apologies for cross-posting-
I announce with great pleasure that a new release of the Perseus Greek
Texts under PhiloLogic is now up at the same address as the old one:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/
Click "Search the Greek Texts and Translations"
Greek texts specifically available through the search form at
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/perseusgreek.whizbang.form.html
Googling "Perseus under Philologic" will get you to the site easily.
This implementation of Perseus under PhiloLogic has been worked on by
Charles Cooney of the ARTFL project, and since the summer of 2007, by
Richard Whaling, classicist and computer scientist all-in-one. Work
was sponsored in part by the Perseus Project, for whose support we are
very grateful.
Besides the built-in possibilities in PhiloLogic of KWIC concordances,
frequencies, and collocation data, among others, of special interest
in this current release are:
-navigation and search results better reflect expectations of
classicists (standard citations, which are also browsable).
-Note however that line numbers in search results for poetry refer to
the closest preceding 'milestone' -not the exact line.
-morphological/lexical information directly from a Chicago server, by
selecting a word and hitting d on your keyboard.
-limiting searches in Greek texts of tragedy and comedy to the text of
individual characters. (Find me all instances where Ismene uses Greek
_men_)
It should be clear that there is both significant overlap with
capabilities at Perseus, but also significant differences. This is
made possible by the fact that the Perseus Project uses a Creative
Commons License for its texts and thereby allows its significant
investment in text encoding to be seen in places far beyond its own
site, not restricted to its own set of reading and analysis tools. I
look forward to further cooperative projects.
Comments welcome! Please use the "Report a Problem" link to notify us
of anything from textual errors to bugs in the system. In periodic
(not instantaneous!) updates, we will try to address as many of these
as possible.
Enjoy! Latin to follow.
With best wishes,
Helma Dik
Helma Dik
Dept. of Classics
University of Chicago
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics
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