philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026-- esp. things like the Word Study Tool (which has been essentially inoperable). We are not taking P4 down yet but we are rolling out features as we can. We need to do a better job communicating and will work on what we say on the site this week. 120
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We got a rather outraged comment on Perseus MVP/Beta Perseus. I think the source for that was the impression that we would not add old features or provide support for new-- that this was a final product. We would have liked to wait til we had more but P4 has been struggling 1/ 110
Reposted by @philologistgrc.bsky.socialAlison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Perseus Digital Library has been hard at work on Minimum Viable Perseus (Perseus MVP). Designed as a static site and heavily inspired by the beloved but faltering P4 (and its awesome users), please check out our efforts here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates) and try it out: beta.perseus.tufts.edu 14119
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026a new version of Perseus is finally live: sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...sites.tufts.eduP6, MVP, and Beta Perseus oh my, or Keeping the Flame of P4 Alive » Perseus Digital Library Updates 2124
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026and back to topostext for maps end/ 020
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Glosses enable new forms of searching 5/ 120
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026THanks to Giuseppe Celano, with some help from Mark Bilby, we were able to build on a treebank, adding glosses 4/ 110
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Then we were able to add David Chamberlain's CC licensed metrical analysis 3/ 120
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Topostext had. published an HTML version of the excellent WHD Rouse translation and we were able to convert that to XML quickly. 2/ 130
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wrote up a blog post on what it was possible to do because people are publishing open data in Digital Classics. I ended up creating a serviceable digital edition of Nonnus -- who would not have been on top of my list -- because of work that David Chamberlain did 1/ 1176
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@jtauber.com @lore.house A first pass at adding Beowulf to the Perseus Multitext Viewer. Syntactic links and literal translation added by Deep Seek for quick demo purposes. 140
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026and here we can examine how those forms are used. NB: my student Su Wu produced initial Chinese augmented treebanks for Sophocles and I am not filtering these out 030
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026paradigms and the forms that appear in the first two plays we will cover in my advanced greek drama class: the Eumenides and the Oedipus Rex. Here are some verb paradigms. Not abstract -- the forms we actually see in each play. 2/ 020
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026marvellous as treebanks are, they do not track language specific paradigms. Claude helped me fix issues in Morpheus and now I have been begun integrating paradigms with treebanks. Data issues abound but I love the pedagogy: here are common noun 1/ 370
Reposted by @philologistgrc.bsky.socialAlison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026While the onslaught of bots and LLMs taking down both P4 and the Scaife Viewer has been significant, it has not stopped the Perseus research team and it's many awesome collaborators from publishing both open data and new publications that I'd like to higlight (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)sites.tufts.eduOngoing Outages and So Many Publications » Perseus Digital Library Updates 172
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We will have more to say about newer work on Perseus but the Scaife viewer now has dictionary integration and a few commentaries. If not swarmed, it can be a nice reading environment 090
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026thanks to Tom Elliott, Charles Pletcher installed Anubis and Scaife is (for now at least) back up. We will need to do more but this gets us moving at least for now! 2213
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026while we continue to do battle with bot swarms (and hope to agreed on a more advanced strategy with Tufts), this paper appeared. Useful as the Perseus DL can be as a website, our bigger contribution is probably providing data for many other projects. This only begins the story. 0156
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Now Scaife is down. Ugh. it is difficult for an application at Tufts to use bot challenges. We are pushing to do something. This is our traffic as of Google Analytics. 3146
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026tinyurl.com/mrkx7z3j A short note on what the open data ecosystem of digital classics lets you do. 083
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026now.tufts.edu/2026/08/18/w... BTW: the title should be "Founders"now.tufts.eduWhere the Founding Fathers Found Their InspirationThe idea of an independent United States was inspired in no small part by Greco-Roman ideals, argues a classics professor 130
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Absolutely—at last. Plus it will have newer content and be easier to update 010
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...sites.tufts.eduOngoing Perseus disruptions and future plans » Perseus Digital Library Updates 1176
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Here is an interesting case where the LLM makes a mistake and where there is a nice teaching point, i.e., we can show the reader why the LLM had the linguistic data it needed to get the gender (she vs. he) right. This was Deepseek. I have not tested others. 041
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.comClassical Greek in the Open Greek and Latin Project | Journal of Open Humanities Data 040
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026people have complained that the gods being in disguise to check your behavior is a Christian addition the Odyssey. That is not true - consider, for example, this passage from the Odyssey. 010
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026First pass at supporting Classical Persian: selections of the Shahnameh from Pizzi 1883. work of @farnooshamsian finally starts to surface. tinyurl.com/5n8yfh9v 051
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Thanks to OAI Sol 5.6, we have a first version of the first vernacular translation, Segni, aligned to our other versions. It is not perfect but it is a start. 3 years ago, I would not even have tried to enter this. Amazing what we can do. tinyurl.com/3wetnhyf 020
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026for those who have not studied Greek but want to deal with Homer: we have glosses and transliteration in the Homer Treebanks: glosses done with Qwen -- not as good as frontier models but we can run them at scale. tinyurl.com/59xcvjba 092
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A day after the one image that haunts me from Nolans @odysseymovie is Agamemnon -- surely designed to recall the Dark Night--appearing when the Greeks finally open the gates of Troy. Why does Nolan have Agamemnon echo the Dark Night? I will have to go back to the earlier movie. 021
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026LLMs unleashed a new wave of development, with individuals now able to produce reading environments that reflect the features that they consider important. Take a look at Brandon Lucas' lyceum.quest, e.g., his glossed Homer with code github.com/lyceum-quest 030
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026To complement the ballad Iliad of Newman that was released yesterday, we now have the 1911 Cotterill translation into English dactylic hexameter. tinyurl.com/bd7c2h6r 0104
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026on seeing the Odyssey: (1) I can't help it: "Its a very pretty movie, Mr. Nolan, but you mustn't call it Homer." (2) Could be a killer app to boost the study of Greek among a wider range of people speaking US English. Travis Scott as Homeric bard? Thank you! 061
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Low tech bilingual searching Homer: e.g., search for Greek μῆνις and see Greek/Eng at the sentence level: tinyurl.com/5fe4e6fw AT Murray archaic xlation (for now) but useful 032
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026It took a couple of days but I have now the 1856 Newman Iliad in ballad meter - which provoked Arnold's attack. I had identify 500 places where Newman's English skips line numbers. Gemini did a solid first pass job combining half lines scrambled by OCR. gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp/ 020
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I encountered an unexpected move that I will definitely pair with the Odyssey when I next teach comparative epic. Love is the driver and it climaxes with the wrong returning husband against his enemies in a hall-like restaurant. And, of course, dancing and singing in Telugu. 030
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Putting off other duties a bit more, I added the Cowper c. 1790 Iliad and Odyssey. Now you can go from Chapman->Hobbes->Pope->Cowper->Bryant. gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp 030
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026with all the translations we are adding, we have enabled 7 columns for comparison: gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp/ 041
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In preparation for Nolan's Odyssey, we now have Chapman's Homer. You can use the treebank to compare Chapman, Hobbes, Pope, Bryant and other translations: gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp/ 050
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Just a reminder that people have been arguing about how to translate Homer for a long time. Matthew Arnold going at multiple translators and Francis Newman fighting back -- much to learn for those interested, even when we disagree. 000
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp...gregorycrane.github.ioPerseus Serverless Version Browser (Prototype) | Dual-Framework Workspace 000
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Hobbes' Homer translations are much underrated. You can see for yourself, compare the with the treebank and other translations. Long url in next tweet. 210
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I added the Pope Odyssey and fixded issues with the notes. 020
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Bentley reportedly said to Pope of his Iliad: its a very pretty poem but you must not call it Homer. You can now use a treebank and other translations to see for yourself how Pope relates to the Greek. gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp... 1194
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A surprisingly engaging read: M. Bossu's 17th century book in Epic poetry. Stumbled on it in researching our new Poetics edition and found myself nodding along as I read it. Could be a text book -- or core reading -- for a seminar on classical epic today. 010
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026For those of you reading Homer (whether for Nolan or not), we have two new translations up, side by side with treebanks and metrical analysis for both poems: the underappreciated American Bryant translation and Butler, Nagy et co. gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp/ 030
Reposted by @philologistgrc.bsky.socialRonen Tamari @ronentk.me · 16/06/2026How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 > 55414
philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Congratulations to Sasha Spala for passing her Computer Science PhD Quals at Tufts and beginning a diss to explore integration of LLMs with Corpus/Computational Linguistics @sashaspala.bsky.social 050
