PeriegesisHellados

Tweeting about Pausanias for the project "the Digital Periegesis", as we trace the places of his Description of Greece and the stories associated with them

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

@dbrgeo @aboutgeo Great that you've found this interesting. We'd be delighted to hear your thoughts / talk things through with you.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

How can we capture Pausanias's the forms of place in and the spatial form of Pausanias’s Description of Greece that does some justice to the "thickness" of that description? Our typology for annotating the Periegesis https://t.co/Ent17Rxb2k #geography #annotation #recogito

[Diamond Bay Research @dbrgeo]

@PeriegesisH @aboutgeo The longer version is really interesting: https://t.co/utGCHZraTX
Need to think about it... one item: couldn't bird's eye view be moving through space at the same time? maybe 'synoptic' is static view of a place, and 'hodologic' is observation while passing thru?

[Diamond Bay Research @dbrgeo]

@PeriegesisH #fascinating
events:
- Topographic: a place in space / landscape,
- Chronotopic: a place in time, moving thru history,
- Analogic: places compared / other parts of the world,
pov:
- synoptic (a bird’s eye view),
- hodologic (movement thru space)
- focalisation (narrator or other)

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

Pausanias draws on Herodotus because it provides him with a way of creating a comprehensible, linear account that also, through the trading of one account off against another, recreates the polyphonic, chaotic world of his Greece.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

A thread outlining some notes on Greta Hawes's "Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus", in @Brill_Classics’s 2016 Companion to the Reception of Herodotus.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

The Histories' centrifugal scope challenges Greek mythical traditions by expanding their remit geographically; Pausanias’s centripetal narrative turns Greek traditions back on themselves to create a ‘thicker’ account by placing local accounts within a broadly Hellenic framework.

[King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums]

Today we’re celebrating our academics and their forthcoming #publications on #WorldBookDay! Join Dr Stuart Dunn @StuartEDunn from @kingsdh as he explores the history & impact of Geographic Information Systems in ‘A History of Place in the Digital Age’. https://t.co/spPStNTfbo 📚

[Amalia S. Levi @amaliasl]

Thread.
Discusses new #spatialhumanities project @PeriegesisH that assumes Pausanias' narrative of Greece as his 'personal archive' blending material culture + monuments with literature, and 'translates' it into a #lodlam 'hyperbatic' narrative of space+time. (via @StuartEDunn)

[Programming Historian @ProgHist]

We are happy to see that @Pelagiosproject is encouraging recipients of their #SmallGrants programme to write tutorials - submit your proposals! #digitalhumanities #humanitésnumériques #humanidadesdigitales

[Elton Barker @eltonteb]

As I wrote before all awards are inherently foolish. BUT WE WON! @Pelagiosproject thanks you all for voting, as well as the guy who actually does the work, @aboutgeo, and all of you who use #Recogito and help us make it better. We literally couldn't do it without you.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

We're also trying to be as openly transparent as possible. With this in mind you can take a look at our current annotated texts, the plain text version in English https://t.co/5agLc0HDdp or the Greek TEI https://t.co/5agLc0HDdp. Better still, get in touch and get involved!

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

New on the blog: The Digital Periegesis’s technical environment https://t.co/LuOM8Vzh0H. Rather than reinvent the wheel, we're trying to reuse and extend methods/tools where possible, with shoutouts to @PerseusDigLib @PleiadesProject @Pelagiosproject

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

Practically this means using: the Pausanias texts from @PerseusDigLib's new Scaife viewer https://t.co/6NbDlxSCrG; authority files for places mentioned from @PleiadesProject and https://t.co/x6nBPnpOj4; and @Pelagiosproject's #Recogito for #annotation.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

(3) Yet the Periegesis also reveals a surprisingly broad geographical scope, which is not limited to the small area of mainland Greece that comprises the itinerary. This elasticity of space—where P's vision extends to places far beyond his core focus—Jody terms “hyperbatic”.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

Had a great discussion with @CundyJody, whose thoughtful and thought-provoking PhD on Pausanias—"Axion Theas: Wonder, Space, and Place in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados"—is available here: https://t.co/3L4G1VvjhO.

[PeriegesisHellados @PeriegesisH]

(2) Pausanias consistently (insistently) represents a hodological (route-map) perspective. Even when describing hills, P focuses on the way up to / down from them; they are never used as vantage points to survey the landscape. This is an anti-cartographic viewpoint writ large.