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{Dagmar Van Engen
Introduction to Advanced Research
6-7-2011
Greek and Roman Materials Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser Arabic Materials Germanic Materials 19th Century American Renaissance Materials Richmond Times Dispatch
Collections
Entries
Reading more than one sentence at a timeWell, what does “in principio” mean?
Latin Word Study Tool
The dictionary entry
?
I can’t read this in Latin . . .
It comes in English, too!
Texts that reference this chapter:
Search Me
Wait, there’s more: the map function
Places
Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander
The Historical SparkNotes
So how about English literature?
The Renaissance Collection
• Shakespeare• Spenser• Marlowe• Bacon• James I• Lanyer
Places in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
More about Kentucky
Search for person, place, or date
The Germanic Collection
Oh, yeah, there’s Beowulf. . . but no vocabulary help!
I don’t speak Old English.
Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser
Pots and Paintings:
Berlin F 2531
Accuracy Currency Purpose Audience Coverage Style and Functionality
Assessing Perseus
Lots of Civil War texts in 19th Century American Collection – especially Confederate (“The Great Rebellion”?)
Greek and Roman section has translations for almost everything. Good for catching up on classical references.
Visual location bar is fun Easy to skip between original and
translated text
Perseus is wonderful because . . .
Plenty of search functions Can search for a person or a place across
all the Perseus texts References to the text in other Perseus
texts are easily accessible Google maps for Thucydides and Livy
Perseus is wonderful because . . .
Old English texts Old English language help Up-to-date Greek and Latin dictionaries Early Modern materials People and place searches for texts Text on one page: viewing a whole text at one
time
I wish Perseus had more . . .
“Fourth-generation collections integrate not only . . . text and the original page images but also other forms of annotation (e.g., morphological and syntactic analysis, indices of people and places, markup for the particular sense of particular words in context).”
“We are . . . preparing to convert a range of such print resources into structured, machine-actionable form including lexica, grammars, commentaries, editions, editions of surviving texts and editions of fragmentary authors.”Thoughts and
Questions