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Scaife Viewer

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2,320 works in 3,109 editions and translations (1,548 in Greek and 642 in Latin)
68.7 million words (30.8 million in Greek, 16.7 million in Latin)

About the Scaife Viewer

The Scaife Viewer is a reading environment for pre-modern text collections in both their original languages and in translation. It is the first phase of work towards the next version of the Perseus Digital Library, Perseus 5.0.

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Recent Changes

week of July 26th, 2021

  • updated corpus and corpus stats
  • improved UX when collapsing / expanding sidebars
(v2021-07-30-001 release)

week of April 26th, 2021

  • updated corpus and corpus stats
(v2021-04-28-001 release)

week of March 22nd, 2021

  • added repository metadata and attributions widgets
  • fixed a bug when toggling between normal / highlight mode
(v2021-03-27-001 release)