2024/01/29 by Elton Barker, Chiara Palladino, Shai Gordin · 2 voices · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0009840x23002858
openalex publication_date 2024/01/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/17
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