DIGITAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING SPACE AND PLACE IN CLASSICAL STUDIES

Imagine a student reading Odysseus’ Cretan tale at Odyssey 19.172–84. When faced by a string of unfamiliar names – in addition to ‘native Cretans’, there are Achaeans, Cydonians and Dorians, as well as the individuals Minos, Deucalion, Idomeneus and the speaker, Aethon (Odysseus in disguise) –, they...

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Published inThe Classical review Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
Main Authors Barker, Elton, Palladino, Chiara, Gordin, Shai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.04.2024
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3-D graphics
Archaeology
Classical studies
Digital technology
Encyclopedias
Geographic information systems
Historic buildings & sites
Humanities
Personal names
Remote sensing
Software
Spatial analysis
Spatial data
Subject Profile
Toponymy
Urbanism
Middle East
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Summary:Imagine a student reading Odysseus’ Cretan tale at Odyssey 19.172–84. When faced by a string of unfamiliar names – in addition to ‘native Cretans’, there are Achaeans, Cydonians and Dorians, as well as the individuals Minos, Deucalion, Idomeneus and the speaker, Aethon (Odysseus in disguise) –, they use their digital edition to find out more about each of these people and their places of origin. A personal name opens an online encyclopaedia entry, while clicking on a place launches an emerging world beyond the single text – an online atlas that provides information about the place's toponymy, form and exact location as well as links to other resources (textual and archaeological, ancient and modern) about this place, including those to which our student has contributed. The year? 2023 (Figure 1).1
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ISSN:0009-840X
1464-3561
DOI:10.1017/S0009840X23002858