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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...
Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata
Chapter from the book: LaMonica C.R. and Foka A., Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics. London, Routledge
John Brady Kiesling, Anna Foka, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Linda Talatas and Elton Barker, 2025-12-23
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....
A Digital Periegesis: Implementing Spatial Research Infrastructures for Classical History and Archaeology
Chapter 9 in Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies, 2023, pp. 205-224 (20 pages)
Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Nasrin Mostofian, Brady Kiesling, Linda Talatas, O. Cenk Demiroglu, Kajsa Palm, 2023-09-09
Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece
Literary Geographies, Vol 9, No 1 (2023)
Elton Barker, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Brady Kiesling, Anna Foka, 2023-09-09