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A dataset containing the texts available from the Perseus Digital Library.

Usage

perseus_catalog

Format

A data frame with 2291 rows and 5 variables:

urn

Uniform Resource Number

group_name

Could refer to author (e.g. "Aristotle") or corpus (e.g. "New Testament")

label

Text label, e.g. "Phaedrus"

description

Text description

language

Text language, e.g. "grc" = Greek, "lat" = Latin, "eng" = English, "hpt" = Hebrew pointed text, "hct" = Hebrew consonantal text, "ger" = German, "oth" = other