TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA)
AU - Barker, Elton
AU - Bouzarovski, Stefan
AU - Pelling, Christopher
AU - Isaksen, Leif
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus??? Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent it in a series of mapping applications, such as GIS, GoogleEarth and GoogleMap Timeline. As a collaboration of academics from the disciplines of Classics, Geography, and Archaeological Computing, HESTIA has the twin aim of investigating the ways geography is represented in the Histories and of bringing Herodotus??? world into people???s homes.
AB - HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus??? Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent it in a series of mapping applications, such as GIS, GoogleEarth and GoogleMap Timeline. As a collaboration of academics from the disciplines of Classics, Geography, and Archaeological Computing, HESTIA has the twin aim of investigating the ways geography is represented in the Histories and of bringing Herodotus??? world into people???s homes.
M3 - Article
VL - 9
JO - Leeds International Classical Studies
JF - Leeds International Classical Studies
IS - 1
ER -