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...these questions as it provides an accessible and viable means to address these and countless other issues about Fifth Century Athens and Greece. Gregory Crane, Associate Professor of Classics, has organized the two-room exhibit of ancient pots, coins, weapons and everyday objects with one very non-ancient device: Perseus, a computer database that sits calmly in the form of two Macintoshes beside the exhibited objects in the galleries...
...Perseus contains a diverse and comprehensive group of archaeological, historical and literary details. It includes the following: multiple photographs of exhibited objects and similar works from different periods; photographs of architectural plans, structures and landscapes; maps of Greece; numerous historical and literary texts from the period and etymological analyses of these texts and a concise history of the period...
Crane received almost all of his money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which has been supporting his Perseus Project since 1987. The grant subsidizes work on a multi-media database that collects information about a civilization and then organizes it for public access...
...plane, called the "Perseus," is expected to give University researchers new information on the ozone depletion level and its correlation to such things as climate changes and global warming...
...Perseus" is an innovative device in atmospheric research efforts because it is light and will travel as high as 85,000 feet in the stratosphere, whereas manned planes are not able to go beyond 68,000 feet. The plane is also considered more efficient for the project because it can travel for longer periods than piloted planes...