Perseus 2.0. (Yale University Press educational tour of Greece) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
Macworld, August, 1997
If all roads lead to Rome, then all digital highways lead to ancient Greece--or more precisely, to Perseus 2.0 (Four Stars/7.2; $350 list price) from Yale University Press (800/987-7323, www.yale.edu/yup/). Archaeologically, Perseus encompasses vases, coins, sculpture, architecture, and excavation sites, all fully explained and exhaustively indexed.
Literarily, Perseus packs two-thirds of all surviving Greek literature--with English translations, happily--onto its four CD-ROMs, along with a Greek-English dictionary and lexicon, a historical overview, an interactive atlas, an encyclopedia, a bibliography, biographies, essays, and more. You may be overwhelmed by the mind-expanding wealth of tools and links, confused by the old-fashioned HyperCard interface, and...
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