DIGITAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING SPACE AND PLACE IN CLASSICAL STUDIES
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Published:2024-01-29
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Page:1-19
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ISSN:0009-840X
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Container-title:The Classical Review
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language:en
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Short-container-title:The Class. Rev.
Author:
Barker Elton,Palladino Chiara,Gordin Shai
Abstract
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
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,History,Classics
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