PeriegesisHellados

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

@PeriegesisH @aboutgeo The longer version is really interesting: docs.google.com/document/d/1dr… 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?

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 periegesis.org/blog/2019/04/0… #geography #annotation #recogito

@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)

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.

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.

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.

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’. goo.gl/TsUsDk 📚

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)

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

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.

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 recogito.pelagios.org/document/g2p5b… or the Greek TEI recogito.pelagios.org/document/g2p5b…. Better still, get in touch and get involved!

Practically this means using: the Pausanias texts from @PerseusDigLib's new Scaife viewer scaife.perseus.org; authority files for places mentioned from @PleiadesProject and dare.ht.lu.se; and @Pelagiosproject's #Recogito for #annotation.

New on the blog: The Digital Periegesis’s technical environment periegesis.org/blog/2019/03/0…. Rather than reinvent the wheel, we're trying to reuse and extend methods/tools where possible, with shoutouts to @PerseusDigLib @PleiadesProject @Pelagiosproject

(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”.

(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.

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: tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/76….