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Chicago Manual of Style

Ancient Source for Perseus Digital Library

General Format
Note:
  • 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
(Place of Publication: Publisher, Year; Perseus Digital Library), book number.chapter number,
accessed date, URL.
 
Example:
6. Herodotus, The Histories, trans. A. D. Godley (Cambridge, MA: 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
 
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. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1920; Perseus Digital Library. Accessed January 20, 2021.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126