New Latin Texts in Perseus

5 September 2001

Several new Latin texts have been added to the Perseus Digital Library.

Plautus in English. Although the Latin plays of Plautus have been part of "Roman Perseus" since the beginning, we have not had an English version until now.
Terence in Latin and in English.
The fables of Phaedrus. In addition to the Latin text, we have an addition to the Perseus series of translations by important English poets: Phaedrus is translated by Christopher Smart. These easy animal poems are popular with intermediate-level Latin students.

We are also pleased to introduce the Perseus Latin Anthology, containing links to favorite passages in Latin literature. The anthology is written in simple HTML, so that it also serves as an example of the code you need to make links to Perseus texts and images from your own web pages. We encourage you to make links to anything within the Perseus Digital Library, so long as you provide proper attribution (see the copyright page for details on rights).

Note that the links in the Latin Anthology use the standard human-readable abbreviations for the texts they go to. As you page through a Perseus text, the preferred link format will appear at the bottom of each page. Use this rather than the URL your browser shows, which will contain an internal identifier for the text; similarly, links among texts within the Perseus Digital Library use internal reference forms. These internal forms are more efficient than the human-readable abbreviations; they encode information about the specific version you are reading (original language or English translation). We recommend that you not copy the URL from your browser's location field and that you not use the internal format for links you create to Perseus texts, because linking by internal document id forces the choice of a particular version, overriding the preferences that the reader has set with the Display Configuration tool.

Please report any problems to the Perseus webmaster.

Document last updated 5-Sep-01, AEM