Much to do but some progress on the Scaife Viewer: scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:c... Obviously needs optimization in a variety of ways but dictionaries and commentaries are starting to appear.

Peter Nadel has published an initial reader for the Tufts MA reading list. It extends Glaux treebanks with translations generated by Qwen. The application could be customized to any course or PhD reading list. greek-reading-lists.onrender.com

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

HathiTrust (@hathitrust.bsky.social) A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and ...

it looks like searches to hathitrust.bsky.social now default to "or" rather than "and":e.., I can seem to search for work where the author field contains "James" and "Wilson". Instead I get anything with a Jame or a Wilson in it.

This seems to be a recent change.

Holy Cow! This is amazing!

We have a new article with Digital Classicist Online: Towards a smart edition of Apollodorus

EEBO TCP has rough XML for a 16th c. Latin/Eng dictionary: artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/philologic5/... -- would be a nice project to clean this up.

John Adams in 1804 on his studies at Harvard 1751-1755:

Perhaps should not be surprising but I was surprised.

In books printed in America through 1800, citations to:
Cicero: 836
Virgil: 544
Homer: 297
Shakespeare: 208
Search example: artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/philologic4....

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let me know when you get back! i will be at the CHS for the first week of Jan

GRC_misc/aesch/AeschTBTrans at main · gregorycrane/GRC_misc Contribute to gregorycrane/GRC_misc development by creating an account on GitHub.

For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here: github.com/gregorycrane...

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It. If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

As I look out at the grey November New England afternoon, I consider -- as I often do this time of year -- that I can appreciate, at least a bit, the opening of Moby Dick.

I'm just guessing but I would thinks there's a lot of people who voted for the Asshole that live in Blue States.

wonder how there feeling ? #FOFA

Trump don't care about #MAGAts #MAGA

someone commented on the Russell Parallel Latin-Greek grammar last weekend. I put up an initial version of it (along with Pharr's Homeric Greek): gregorycrane.github.io/xml-llm-show...

We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)

At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.

Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025

I am thinking about Greek and Latin in colonial America and was struck to see this unsourced quotation from Greek (not just Latin) in Mather's Magnalia cites the Greek of Iliad 11.514. Surprised to see non-New Test Greek assumed so early, tbh

Rosy fingered now as in Homeric Greek

I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.

Alyce and I sitting in the Anthony bourdain seat at Kubel’s in Barnegat Light

In the Harvard/Google million book collection, 10 most common authors with books listed as being 'grc' or 'lat':

Note #3 ...

I am so sorry

Results from David Smith's first scan for quotations of Greek and Latin texts in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!

David Smith just did a first pass analysis of Greek and Latin works in the Harvard/Google million book collection.

Which of these NT works came out on top? which was least quoted? Acts - John - Luke - Mark - Matthew?

#thanksbrett Words fail me when I try to express my gratitude and admiration for everything good that @brettbobley.bsky.social caused to happen in his many (but still too few) years at @nehgov.bsky.social The humanities are stronger because of what he and his colleagues accomplished.

The Sixth Generation of the Perseus Digital Library and a Workflow for Open Philology This paper presents an overview of recent developments by the Perseus Digital Library in creating theBeyond Translation reading environment, a foundational component in the transition toward Perseus 6...

We have a paper about the backend to Perseus 6 that is as of today officially published: transformations.episciences.org/15841

As always, @jtauber.com has prior art! github.com/jtauber/gree...

Pharr's Vergil goes into the public domain (if I calculate correctly) on Jan 1, 2026. You can find it already at archive.org/details/verg...

We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?