Case Studies
Pausanias the Chronotopiarist
2026-03-05
The text the Greek traveler Pausanias produced sometime in the 170s CE was not, in his own mind or ours, a work of fiction. It is, however, a rich and complex narrative. The narratological insights derived...
Intertextual Pausanias
What writings does Pausanias cite and where?
JBK, 2025-11-06
Pausanias was an educated man, who could pull from memory a wide variety of passages from Homer and key stories from Herodotus. He consulted other written sources during his travels, gravitating toward...
Date Geography of Pausanias Periegesis
2024-09-09
We assigned a narrative location to each of the 3170 paragraphs of the text of Pausanias, along with a notional date, one day per paragraph, between 160 and 175 CE. This allows us to visualize fairly neatly...
Table Views with all Annotations of Persons, Places and Events that are Mentioned in Pausanias’ Periegesis
With Links to Wikidata, to Book Sections and to Maps
2024-04-28
Search in Wikidata
Search a Dataset of 24 000 Historical and Mythological Persons - including those mentioned by Pausanias.
You can download the entire dataset as a CSV, XML or JSON file, or search and download parts of it....
Delos as a Mediterranean network?
2021-12-05
Mapping historical cultures dates before the term digital humanities became established, most notably through the method of cartography, the practice of drawing and studying maps. Traditional print cartography...
Curtains for Zeus: Mapping a multi-media offering
2020-02-27
Annotating the surviving text of the intrepid 2nd century traveler Pausanias is a delicate task: weighing 223,000-odd words in ancient Greek and tagging people, places, events, and their relationships....
Delos as a hyper-connected hub
2020-02-11
As covered in last week’s post, annotating Pausanias’ references on Delos in Recogito enables us to visualize the many places with which the sanctuary-island was connected. But our digital venture...