General Format
Note:
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Each classical source in Perseus Digital Library includes the bibliographical information from the original edition used at the end of the selected passage. Use that bibliographical information and then add the information pertaining Perseus Digital Library, including date of access, in both your footnote/endnote and your bibliography. The footnote should also include the book and chapter numbers that are being cited. These are located at the top right hand corner of the text.
Full Note:
1. Author First name Last name, Book Title: Subtitle, ed./comp./trans. First Name Last name
(Publisher, Year; Perseus Digital Library), book number.chapter number, accessed date, URL.
2. Author First name Last name, Book Title: Subtitle, ed./comp./trans. First Name Last name
(Place of Publication if book published before 1900, Year; Perseus Digital Library), book number.chapter number,
accessed date, URL.
Example:
6. Herodotus, The Histories, trans. A. D. Godley (Harvard University Press, 1920; Perseus
Digital Library), 3.38. accessed January 20, 2021, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126
7. Sophocles, The Trachiniae of Sophocles, ed. Sir Richard Jebb (Cambridge, 1892; Perseus
Digital Library), 141. accessed September 10, 2025, http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1-48
Subsequent Note:
2. Author Last name, "Book Title, book number.chapter number.
Example:
8. Herodotus, The Histories, 3.40
Bibliography:
Author Last name, First Name. Book Title: Subtitle. Edited by/Compiled by/
Translated by First Name Last name. Place of Publication: Publisher,
Year; Perseus Digital Library. Accessed date. URL.
Example:
Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by A. D. Godley. Harvard University Press,
1920; Perseus Digital Library. Accessed January 20, 2021.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126
Sophocles. The Trachiniae of Sophocles. Edited by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge, 1892; Perseus
Digital Library. Accessed September 10, 2025, http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1-48
