HESTIA

Full project title

Hestia: The home for spatial analysis of Herodotus’s Histories

Description

Hestia uses a range of digital technologies to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus’ Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent it in a series of mapping applications, such as GIS, GoogleEarth and a GoogleMaps Timeline. As a collaboration of academics from the disciplines of Classics, Geography, and Archaeological Computing, HESTIA has the twin aim of investigating the ways geography is represented in the Histories and of bringing Herodotus’s world to a broader audience via the Web.

The Team

Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open University Stefan Bouzarovski, Geography, The University of Birmingham Chris Pelling, Classics, Christ Church, Oxford Leif Isaksen, Archaeological Computing, The University of Southampton

Editors: Elton Barker and Leif Isaksen