The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. The Perseus Project has published two CD-ROMs and created the on-line Perseus Digital Library. Recent expansion into Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials has served to add more coverage within Perseus and has prompted the project to explore new ways of presenting complex resources for electronic publication.
Yale University Press released Perseus 2.0 (Macintosh only) in 1996 and Platform Independent Perseus 2.0 in 2000. Nearly four times the size of Perseus 1.0, Perseus 2.0 features additional art and archaeology materials and more texts. Since 1995, the Perseus WWW site has grown into the Perseus Digital Library, an on-line publication of the materials contained on the Perseus CDs as well as new areas of research. Recent expansions include Roman materials, Renaissance texts, and new lexicography tools for Greek and Latin.
Perseus is a non-profit enterprise.