Perseus version history

• 1985 Planning for Perseus begins
• 1987 Establishment of project
• 1992 Perseus 1.0 released by Yale University Press
• 1995 Perseus WWW site begins, with addition of LSJ9
• 1996 Perseus 2.0 (Mac only) released by Yale University Press
• 1997 First release of Latin texts on Perseus as well as start of Renaissance collection
• 1999 Perseus begins work under Digital Library Initiative, Phase 2
• 2000 Perseus 2.0 (Platform Independent) released by Yale University Press
• 2000 Perseus web site expanded and revised becoming "Perseus 3.0"; several new collections are added
• 2005 Perseus 4.0 released on WWW
• 2006 Release of Perseus TEI XML collections in Greek, Latin, and English under a Creative Commons Sharalike/Non-Commercial/Attribution license.
• 2007 Source code for Perseus 4.0 released