Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Chris and Isaksen, Leif
(2010).
Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA).
Leeds International Classical Studies, 9(2010),
article no. 1.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2010 The Authors |
| ISSN: |
1477-3643 |
| Funders: |
Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/F019459/1] |
| Keywords: |
Herodotus; history; geography; mapping; ICT; GoogleEarth; maps; timeline; networks; topological; HESTIA |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Classical Studies |
| Item ID: |
20528 |
| Depositing User: |
Elton Barker
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| Date Deposited: |
08 Mar 2010 10:36 |
| Last Modified: |
26 Oct 2012 18:35 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/20528 |
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