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Summer2020 Session 13

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Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2020

Session 13. Romans 1 by 1: Classical Prosopography using relational and graph based approaches

Thursday July 2, 17:00-18:15 CEST

Convenors: Rada Varga (Babes-Bolyai University), Stefan Bornhofen (CY Tech, Université Paris-Seine)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/hS9nb8y1AmI

Slides: Varga, R1by1: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/698239/

Bornhofen, Intergraph: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/30155/

Session outline

This session presents the multitude of research possibilities opened by the ingestion into a database of information on ancient people. Romans 1by1 is a relational database, open access, having as ultimate purpose the study of people attested in ancient (classical) epigraphy. During the current session, we will present the tool in itself and how it can be useful to any interested party. We also study the potential of transfering the information to a graph database linked to a visualisation tool (InterGraph), which may alllow the user to get a new perspective on the data and to obtain complementary insights.

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Further reading

Exercise

Using Romans1by1 (http://romans1by1.com/) and Intergraph (https://blizaar-lab.recherche.cergy.eisti.fr/), take one of the three cases presented (Herculanus, Aurelius Aquila and Andueia Batonis) and write a short prosopographical essay on it, based on the data from the epigraphic sources and the network visualized in Intergraph.

Do the same for a person of your own choosing from Romans 1by1 (suggestions: Lucius Vasidius Victor, Caius Antonius Rufus, Marcus Opellius Adiutor, etc.)