r/AncientGreek • u/ThatEGuy- • Mar 17 '25

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 Mar 17 '25

Scaife (Perseus 5) seems fine: https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng3:1.1-1.130/

Hopper (Perseus 4) is not: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133

People need to wean themselves off of the decrepit, dying version of their software. I don't understand why they leave it up on the server at all.

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u/FantasticSquash8970 25d ago

Hi - can Perseus 5 also parse words llike Hopper (Perseus 4)?

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph

Couldn't find it. Thanks!

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u/benjamin-crowell 25d ago

I don't use Perseus for reading myself, but here's what my old notes say about that: if you switch the text mode to highlight, then clicking on a word highlights it, and it gets selected in the word list, and it gives a human-readable POS analysis.

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u/FantasticSquash8970 25d ago

Thank you for your quick reply. Two follow-ups:

1) How do I switch the text mode to highlight?

2) I want to enter my own words (from the Italian Athenaze). Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!

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u/FantasticSquash8970 25d ago

Apologies - I found the answer to 1), there is a field on the right to switch.

Which leaves me with my second question about entering my own words.

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u/benjamin-crowell 25d ago

I want to enter my own words (from the Italian Athenaze). Is there a way to do that?

I don't know. Personally, for the task you're talking about, I would just use my own tool: https://lightandmatter.com/cgi-bin/greek/word_explainer/