Perseus under PhiloLogic, 2018 edition
[First posted in AWOL 28 July 2009. Updated 14 September 2018]
News and updates
Welcome to Perseus under PhiloLogic. It's been a while since we released
an official update, but here it is, thanks to indefatigable wrangling
(of C, perl, apache and many other arcana) this summer by Walt Shandruk.
The intervening years have seen significant work especially on the side
of the Greek texts, and some enhancements to the functionality of
PhiloLogic for ... philologists. I'd like to thank all those who have
written to us over the years to report typos and other errors; or simply
to report a server outage. We are glad you keep coming back for more.
If the Perseus mothership at Tufts represents a well-outfitted library
carrel, with texts, commentaries, dictionaries and other resources all
within your reach on the same page, then the organization of this site
may come as a surprise. Rather than reading-with-apparatus, we aim to
offer exploration of the texts through a panoply of corpus queries.
Because many texts have been parsed by hand, and the rest of them with
the computer, you can search in ways that you don't see in too many
other places: For instance, search for present imperatives in Plato, or
the particle μέν only in lines spoken by Ismene. Looking for forms of
βροτός at the end of the sentence? We are here to serve them up. For
experienced and post-beginner readers, we also recommend tools that will
by now be familiar, I hope: the Keyword in Context view, and the
Collocation tool.
We are grateful for all problem reports and user suggestions; keep them
(and your donations:-)) coming. To keep abreast of developments,
consider following us on Twitter: @LogeionGkLat. Work that awaits: we
really want to incorporate more texts, which are steadily becoming
available from the Perseus Digital Library. More importantly, we need to
adapt the new generation of PhiloLogic, PhiloLogic4,
to the needs of classicists (think: navigation that is not by page
number in an edition; lemma searches; ...), so that we no longer depend
on fifteen-year-old technology. Stay tuned.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteThe new release is now official.
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