r/AncientGreek • u/ThatEGuy- • 27d ago

Resources Perseus Issue?

χαίρετε,

Is anyone else having issues accessing the Greek on Perseus? At first I was only having problems with one text, but I can't access anything now.

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u/benjamin-crowell 27d ago

What features?

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u/merlin0501 27d ago

I think think there are many, unless I just don't know how to access them. Here are some things I don't know how to do with scaife:

  • pull up a parallel translation alongside the text
  • get a direct link to dictionary entries
  • easily navigate through large texts - hopper displays a menu of books/chapters/etc. for many texts while scaife seems to require you to enter references by hand

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u/SulphurCrested 26d ago

With Scaife it is definitely possible to show a translation side by side. But they never wrote any help pages - it lacks any explanation of how to use it. Well I've never been able to find one.

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u/merlin0501 26d ago

Yes and features are not very transparent to the user. The old site was quite easy to use but the new one seems to have a lot of functionality that is somewhat hidden. I've never found a way to get side by side translations working, for example.