tonyjurg/Perseus-mcp

Perseus-mcp

Give Claude / Cursor / Windsurf direct access to the entire Perseus Digital Library — ancient Greek texts, precise CTS navigation, plaintext, search, and more.

A high-quality MCP server specialized in Classical Greek literature. It runs as a local FastMCP server so MCP-capable applications can attach these Perseus tools to the LLM/model provider of your choice.

Features

This server exposes thirteen MCP tools. Every tool returns a text payload: some are raw Perseus CTS XML or Scaife JSON, while the discovery and plaintext helpers return locally shaped JSON or readable text.

• get_passage(urn) — fetch a CTS passage by URN.
• get_passage_plus(urn) — fetch passage text plus contextual metadata.
• get_passage_plaintext(urn) — fetch a CTS passage as plain readable text.
• get_valid_references(urn, level=None) — retrieve navigable citation references for a work or edition.
• get_capabilities() — list available texts/editions from Perseus CTS.
• list_text_groups(language=None, query=None, limit=100) — list matching authors/textgroups and works.
• get_author_resources(author, language=None) — list works, editions, and translations for a matching author name or CTS textgroup URN.
• `find_author_names(query, language=None, limi