Myths on Maps

It appears that Fairyland could be replaced in all cases with a more specific location.
These are the events that take place in Fairyland:
Description: Odysseus and twelve companions arrive at the land of the Cyclopes.
Description: Odysseus enters a cave belonging to Polyphemus with a skin of wine
Description: Polyphemus arrives at his cave, blocks the entrance and eats some of Odysseus’ men
Description: Odysseus gives Polyphemus wine to drink
Description: Polyphemus asks Odysseus his name, Odysseus claims that his name is Nobody
Description: Odysseus sharpens a club and uses it to blind Polyphemus
Description: Polyphemus cries for help, but states that “Nobody” is hurting him
Description: Odysseus and his comrades hide underneath sheep, so Polyphemus unknowingly releases them from the cave
Description: Odysseus sails away from the island and shouts to Polyphemus that he is Odysseus
Description: Odysseus comes to the land of the Laestrygones, who are cannibals
Description: The king’s daughter meets Odysseus’ companions and leads them to the king, Antiphates
Description: Antiphates and the Laestrygones break the ships with stones and eat the men, but Odysseus' ship escapes
Description: Odysseus sails past the island of the Sirens, who persuade sailors to linger with their music
Description: Odysseus plugs the ears of his comrades with wax and orders them to tie him to the mast
Description: Odysseus’ ship passes the Sirens unharmed, so the Sirens die
Description: Odysseus must choose whether to go past the Wandering Rocks, or past Scylla and Charybdis
Description: Scylla attacks Odysseus' ship

Looking at the participants I think we could replace Fairyland with one of the following: Land of the Cyclopes; Land of the Laestrygones; Island of the Sirens; Wandering Rocks (aka Planctae); Scylla and Charybdis; and the Island of Ogygia.

In fact, any events that include characters like the Cyclopes, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso or any place like The (is)lands of the ? - as above - should probably be converted to a more specific location.

It appears that if a search result is in the final chunk before a chapter change (e.g. 2.2.2 is that last chunk before chapter 2.3) the search doesn't deduce the location, so no link for you.

So, for example, do a search for 'Philyra' or 'Aegina'. The second result has no citation (the first one does).

In order to make our apps more portable (ie. deploying an app in the new xar format - which defaults to putting everything in /db/apps/) we need to be able to refer to collections and documents relatively.

So, instead of declaring an absolute path
let $coll := collection('/db/site/xml/texts')

we can create our working collection with relative paths like this:
let $pwd := substring-after(system:get-module-load-path(), 'xmldb:exist://embedded-eXist-server')
let $coll := collection(resolve-uri('xml/texts',$pwd))

jQuery doesn't like element IDs containing regexp control characters (in my case, decimal points) because it uses regexp internally to parse it. The result is that when I use jQuery to check length (or existence) of a DOM node that contains a decimal point (e.g. section-id_apollodorus-library_1.1.1) it doesn't find nodes that demonstrably *do* exist.

To address the problem I create a new variable that escapes the troublesome ID:
var jDataId = dataId.replace(/\./g,"\\.");

Then I just refer to the escaped var instead of the original.

Default Oxygen XML parser prefs include (under the Relax NG section) 'Add default attribute values' set to checked (on). As a result, transforming a document using tei_all will produce output with (no surprise now) default attribute values.
Either turn this option off or don't transform tei_all documents.

Here is an ordered sequence of a events that I think would make a good test case for journeys; Theseus and the Minotaur. It is quite simple, and involves relatively few places and participants. We might wish later to link this up with or include the origin of the minotaur, and the practice of sending it tribute.

1. event_984, Athens, Theseus et al. sail for Crete to be fed to the Minotaur. Theseus leaves behind his father Aegeus.
2. event_985, Crete, Theseus and the others have arrived on Crete. Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, falls in love with Theseus and offers to help him if he marries her
3. event_1870, Crete, Daedalus the designer of the labyrinth, tells Ariadne how to navigate it (ie, with the help of a ball of string)
4. event_986, Crete, Theseus kills the Minotaur
5. event_988, Naxos, Theseus, Ariadne and the other Athenians sail away from Crete and stop here. Theseus forgets/abandons Ariadne and sails off again without her
6. DIVERGENCE FROM MAIN JOURNEY, event_989, Lemnos, Dionysos, smitten, brings Ariadne to Lemnos
7. event_990, Athens Theseus returns to Athens, but when sailing into Athens, forgets to put up white sails to signal to Aegeus that he's alive. Aegeus, thinking him dead, kills himself.

These events are drawn from Apollodorus Epitome 1.5-10.

I've written a little bash script that makes updating an eXist db trivial.

The update script relies on a publicly accessible xquery script inside the target database that can return the timestamp of the most recently updated file in the /db collection. Martin wrote one that looks like this. You need to get it in to the db before the rest will work.

The update script itself is written in bash, and uses curl to interact with eXist. You can find the script itself here. It is fairly well documented, and only requires a few settings adjustments to work. It works by checking the local tree for the latest timestamp, compares it to the timestamp it got from the exist db, then creates a list of all local files that need to be pushed to the remote db.

To launch it in Ubuntu I use a Gnome launcher that invokes the script (the 'Exec=' line) like this:
Exec=gnome-terminal --title="Upload files to DB" -e "/complete/path/to/update-script.sh"
which opens a terminal and then runs the script.

Consider the following XML snippet:
<name type="first">Joe</name> <name type="last">Bloggs</name>

A common problem when working on an eXist project is that it gets serialized thusly:
JoeBloggs
That is, the whitespace gets discarded at some point along the line.

Previously, I've tried making adjustments to the XML directly (p xml:space="preserve") and adding processing instructions to XSL, like xsl:preserve-space. They are, at best, unreliable.

Martin and I worked through the various possible fixes, and discovered three ways to make this work:
1) when configuring your exist:serialize options, add 'indent=yes'
2) if handing something off to XSLT with transform:transform, send it a final directive 'indent=yes'
3) look for the string 'preserve-whitespace-mixed-content' in the main eXist config file ($existHOME/WEB-INF/config.xml) and change the value from no to yes. You'll need to re-index your collection before this will take effect.

We figure option 3 is the most practical way of addressing this as it doesn't add any overhead to your application.

I think that in general, we should use the adjectival form of demonyms ending in "-ian" -- eg Athenian, Locrian. The only exceptions will be important and frequent demonyms that are most familiar in another transliteration, like "Achaeans" (361,000 hits on google, vs 82,700 for "Achians").

At some point in the future, as we add work work by different translators, it might be good for us to adopt our own consistent scheme of transliteration and anglicization.

As I edit the descriptions of characters, it occurs to me that it might be useful to establish and/or make explicit some conventions of descriptions (of characters, groups and events) so that they will be consistent:

• All descriptions should be in the present tense.
• Descriptions should not be overly detailed. They should provide just enough detail to disambiguate characters of the same name, or to jog someone's memory about who a character is. Do not try to summarize an entire myth, but do refer very briefly to the myth
• The descriptions should be written in natural sounding English, and should not borrow archaic, awkward or euphemistic words or phrases from the descriptions in the sources (eg "wroth" "begat" "lie with" "slay")
• References to particular sources or authors should not be included in the descriptions. That is, don't say "according to Homer" or "in the Iliad"

I am currently making all the demonyms for Apollodorus and came across "greeks" just after the bit with Deucalion's flood. All that happens is that they have their name changed to Hellenes. Lauren thinks that it's not good to mark them up as Greeks because that's not how it would show up in the Greek. I'm not sure what to do: Mark it up; leave it blank? Laurel? Simon

It's true that I think that a "Greeks" group might be too big to be useful, since it will include a huge number of people and groups, and criteria for membership will be difficult to define and apply consistently, especially since I don't think that "Greeks" is used consistently of any Greek word across texts and translations. I could be brought around to the idea of such a group, but only if we think carefully about it first and are explicit about what a "greeks" group is, who will be in it and when will we use it. --Lauren

I have noticed that when Apollodorus gives several versions of the same event,or the details of the same event, these are often entered into the events list as separate events. What I think would be best in most of these cases would be to rewrite the description of the main version of the event to emphasize what is common to all the versions, and then merge the bibls from all the events into that event.

I think it is generally a good idea to avoid putting details that are disputed (or overly specific details) into event descriptions, because this will make it harder to judge when events are the same. In writing event descriptions, we should try to include the most salient point of the event, and leave extraneous and potentially confusing details out.

For example, the description of event_1481 used to read "Peleus brings the child to Chiron, who feeds him inside wide (sic) beasts and names him Achilles for not putting his lips to the breast." This description assumes that it is going to be read as part of a sequence, not in isolation, but given the nature of the user interface descriptions are often going to be read in isolation or out of sequence. Out of sequence, the reference to "the child" in this description doesn't make sense. Also, the etymology of Achilles' name is not an essential part of the event, and its inclusion will make adding other sources for this event more difficult. I have changed the description to read "Peleus gives Achilles over to Chiron's care."

Some events describe a transition from one place to another, where the journey itself is unremarkable. event_728 is an example; the description is "Niobe leaves Thebes and goes to her father in Sipylus."

Currently, the place for this event is given as "unknown," but this does not seem entirely correct. SBE and I agree that in cases like this, where there is a beginning point and an end point to the journey and neither seems more salient than the other, priority should be given to the destination. So, "Sipylus" should be listed as the place here. (This assumes that there exists another event in the list in which the character shows up at the point of departure. If not, one should be created).

I changed the description of the event to reflect the focus of Niobe's arrival in Sipylus.

One thing that's become really clear as I'm reading through the events list is that we need to come to a consensus about and then explicitly define "event." As it stands, there seem to be competing definitions of "event," and this is beginning to cause problems.

When we started this project, and were only going to have a map without text, the definition we agreed on for event was, more or less "at least one person said to be in a given place (doing something)." We were mainly interested in who went where, and whom we could say were in places together. Narrative didn't matter that much. As a consequence, early in the list we find "events" that contain an awful lot of narrative elements. For example, the description of event_542 is "Hercules marches on Elis, kills Augeas and sons, restores Phyleus to power, celebrates the Olympian games, etc." In the logic of our definition, this could all be called one event, since it involved Heracles being in Elis with Augeas and Phyleus.

The problem is that now, we care about narrative. It no longer makes sense to group many narrative elements into the same event, just because they all happen to involve the same person in the same place. This is especially true when we have the same event described in more than one source. "Events" need to be narrative units that can be meaningfully compared across sources. If one author describes Heracles doing 10 things in Thebes and we call that an event, what are we do to when another author describes Heracles doing 3 of those 10 things, plus 2 others not mentioned by this first author, and on and on? Is this the same "event"?

I have consulted with LB, and the provisional definition she suggests is "one or more person in one place doing one thing." The "one place" element of the definition is important for the map. "One thing" is still unavoidably subjective, but is certainly narrower than the definition being used now.

If a sequence of events is disputed (e.g. one author includes an event in a sequence but another author does not) we should have a sequence that includes bibl entries for different authors. Conditionally then, we can say that when a sequence of events lists more than one author in its corresps we have a potential dispute - and we can render it in a way that highlights the dispute.

When groups are included in events, we do not mean to imply that every member of the group participated in the event. For example, although the Argonauts go to Colchis, and should be listed as doing so, Heracles, although a member of the Argonauts, does not go to Colchis. We will want to add a notice or disclaimer of some sort to the user interface to reflect this.

This means that whenever someone is explicitly named as taking part in an event, that person should be added as an individual to the event, even if a group of which that person is a member is also listed as taking part in the event.

How will we render gaps in the text? There are several lacunas that are currently not expressed in in the website. I will check in the copy I have so see what they do, but we need something there because it seriously affects the meaning of certain passages and the flow of the text.

Here's an example of one such gap:

he returned with his army <note anchored="true" resp="#ed"
>He was met by a Peloponnesian army at the Isthmus of <placeName corresp="places.xml#corinth"
>Corinth</placeName> and there defeated and slain in single combat by <name type="character"
corresp="characters.xml#echemus">Echemus</name>, king of <placeName
corresp="places.xml#tegea">Tegea</placeName>. Then, in virtue of a treaty which they had
concluded with their adversaries, the <name type="group" corresp="groups.xml#heraclids">Heraclids</name> retreated to <placeName
corresp="places.xml#attica">Attica</placeName>and did not attempt the invasion of <placeName
corresp="places.xml#peloponnese">Peloponnese</placeName>again for fifty years. See
<bibl>Diod. 4.58.1-5</bibl>; <bibl n="Paus. 8.5.1">Paus. 8.5.1</bibl>. These events may have
been recorded by Apollodorus in the lacuna which follows.</note><gap/> of <name
type="character" corresp="characters.xml#hercules">Hercules</name>

I've added a sub-groups feature to the groups widget.
If a group contains sub-group(s), they will displayed in the same way that individuals are currently displayed - comma, separated list in their own section. I decided not to just dump the sub-group members in to the list of individuals in the parent group because the sub-groups are frequently (or at least sometimes) included in the parent group as a group (e.g. 'sons of Thestius' are mentioned as a group when included in the Calydonian Boar Hunt).
Clicking on a sub-group name will display information about the sub-group.

So in tackling the Calydonian Boar Hunt issue, Greg and I had to figure out how to include an event in a character's description. It's a bit complicated so: EXAMPLE!

<person xml:id="eurytion_1">
<persName>Eurytion</persName>
<note type="description">A participant in the <listEvent>
<event corresp="events.xml#event_101">
<desc>Calydonian Boar Hunt</desc>
</event>
</listEvent>, killed unintentionally by <persName corresp="#peleus"
>Peleus</persName>.</note>
<age n="9"/>
<note><listPerson>
<personGrp/>
<relation name="father" active="#antigone_2"/>
</listPerson></note>
<sex value="1">male</sex>
</person>

So within the description add <listEvent> then <event (and the xml id of the event you want)> then <desc>(put the name of event here) and close all the tags.

~Simon

Added at group greeksAtTroy. I have included achaeans, argives and danaans as subgroups, and should perhaps also include them as akas (I don't know if this would even work). I plan also to include as subgroups the contigent groups of the Greeks as they are described in the CoS, for now.

I am unsure whether or how to add the trojanWar group that already exists, and gives a long list of names from Apollodorus, without sources or citation, and without sorting the participants into subgroups, which I think is useful. I will leave this entry alone for now, but it might be good in the future to edit it to include all the subgroups who participated in the Trojan war, and then edit out from the long list of characters all the characters already included in the subgroups.

Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships, and later, Apollodorus both describe the contributions of men and ships that various city-states made to the Greek expedition against Troy. As it stands, there are two separate sets of events in the events list; those drawn from Homer's description, and those drawn from Apollodorus' description. Homer and Apollodorus are clearly describing the same thing, although the information they provide is not identical.

For example, event 1078 cites Apollodorus saying that the Boeotians contributed 10 leaders and 40 ships, event 1406 cites Homer, who names the Boeotian leaders and says they contributed 50 ships with 120 men each. Homer and Apollodorus are referring to the same thing, and so we need to be able to see that, but we also need to be able to see and preserve the differences in their accounts.

Greg proposes two possible solutions. The first is to keep two separate events with two separate ids in the list of events, and to include a "same as" thing, so that the two events can be associated. This has the advantage of keeping each version of the events simply and unambiguously associated with its proper citation, but poses possibly insurmountable difficulties for when it comes time to incorporate ordered series of events into journeys (it will not be possible, it a journey, to have to contemporaneous and notionally identical events).

The second possible solution is to merge the two events under one id, and include bibl references for each of the sources (ie, Apollodorus, Homer, and whichever authors are added to the project in the future). The downside of this is that it could become difficult to present the information correctly, while also sorting out differences and showing clearly what info is contained in what source.

A third possibility is some system that combines these two possibilities, which would be dependent on subjective judgement of the difference of events.

I want to build a "browse by text" widget that provides a categorized list of stuff within the fragment a user chooses. For example, clicking on "browse by text -> Apollodorus -> Places" will display a list of all places mentioned by Apollodorus, and choosing Characters or Events or Groups will show a list of all characters, events and groups mentioned by Apollodorus.

The XPath for showing all unique places in Apollodorus:
//p/placeName[not(@corresp=preceding::placeName/@corresp)]/@corresp
This should only provide placeNames that are direct children of p elements - meaning it will ignore placeNames nested in notes, bibls and cits.

I removed 'abdera' and 'apollod' from the character list, and corrected the one reference to 'Apollod' in Apollodorus to "Apollo."

I have come across the following characters in the characters list which almost certainly need to be removed: cercopes, chthonic (this is an adjective, not a name, erichthoniius (almost certainly a misspelling of "erichthonius")

I think the following probably also need to be removed: curetes, byblus (place, not a person)

Attention should be paid to the character entries "humanity_1" and "humanity_2" -- I'm not sure they are properly characters.

I suspect cycnus_1 and cycnus_2 may be the same character, should investigate.

SBE, LM and I sorted out at least the xml-side of a couple of issues today: sub-groups, and how to deal with disputed parentage.

1) When we have a group that clearly belongs to another group how do we mark up the relationship? For example, the group leadersOfTheBoeotians already exists. If there are leaders, clearly there are followers, and also clearly, there is a larger group containing them all. Solution:

<org xml:id="boeotians">
    <name>Boeotians</name>
    <org corresp="#boeotiansLeaders"/>
    <org corresp="#boeotianMinions"/>
    <personGrp>
    	<persName corresp="characters.xml#tim" source="apollodorus.xml#apollodorus-epitome_1.1.23">Tim</persName>
    </personGrp>
</org>

** please note the addition of the source attribute to the persName element.

2) When a claim of parentage is made that is in dispute with another claim - e.g. Apol. says Tim is the father of one child (Keith) but Homer says that Tim is the father of a different only child (Kevin) we need a way to render this in the xml. Previously we just did this:

<relation name="father" active="#keith #kevin"/>

but now we're going to do this:

<relation name="father" active="#keith" corresp="#apol_1.1.1"/>
<relation name="father" active="#kevin" corresp="#homer_1.120"/>

To sum up as a rule/guideline for RAs
When you add a group to another group use a self-closing org tag with a corresp for group you are including. In the case of individuals being added directly to a group, be sure to include a citation using the source attribute. The citation may be the first reference in a text of the character's membership in the group, or the most explicit.

When you add a relation tag to a person please provide a corresp for each occurrence of the relation element. Not to say that each child of someone needs a relation element of their own. Rather, only add a new relation element when ambiguity/dispute occurs, as in our example above. When we have an undisputed collection of children we can provide a single corresp for all. That is, if author A tells us that Tim is the father of Keith, Kevin, and Kathy and no other author disputes this we only need one relation tag

<relation name="father" active="#keith #kevin #kathy" corresp="#authorA_1.1.1"/>

The application now displays a character's gender.
TEI uses ISO 5218:1977 Representation of Human Sexes as a guide, thus 0 indicates unknown; 1 indicates male; 2 indicates female; and 9 indicates not applicable.
So, when editing the gender of a character be aware that it works this way:
The xml tag looks like

<sex value="1">male</sex>

Pleiades offers a json version of their places data, so, using the Perseus RDF file mentioned in a previous post, I whipped up a little script while watching The Borgias. The main part looks like this:

id="1001889";names=`wget -q -O- http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/1001889/json | grep -Po '"names":.*?[^\"],'|cut -d "[" -f2|cut -d "]" -f1` && echo "$id | $names"

After some massaging I've got this

Place name(s): Abdera
Plieades ID: 501323

Place name(s): Abdera, Abdara
Plieades ID: 265762

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 30202

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 573048

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 594942

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 60403

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 981502

Place name(s): Achaia
Plieades ID: 991372

Place name(s): Adai, Halai
Plieades ID: 554174

Place name(s): Adramyttium
Plieades ID: 550403

Place name(s): Aegina, Oinone
Plieades ID: 579844

Place name(s): Aetna M.
Plieades ID: 462077

Place name(s): Akragas, Agrigentum, Agrigento
Plieades ID: 462086

Place name(s): Alexandreia, Alexandria
Plieades ID: 60406

Place name(s): Alexandria
Plieades ID: 60409

Place name(s): Alexandria
Plieades ID: 60410

Place name(s): Alexandria
Plieades ID: 727070

Place name(s): Alexandria
Plieades ID: 876562

Place name(s): Amphipolis
Plieades ID: 501347

Place name(s): Antiochia, Theoupolis, Iopolis
Plieades ID: 658381

Place name(s): Apamea
Plieades ID: 658385

Place name(s): Apamea
Plieades ID: 897711

Place name(s): Aphidna
Plieades ID: 573100

Place name(s): Aphidna
Plieades ID: 579873

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 462097

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 491526

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 507366

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 536060

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 543633

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 589703

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 594947

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 674220

Place name(s): Apollonia
Plieades ID: 897714

Place name(s): Apollonia, Apollonis
Plieades ID: 857686

Place name(s): Apollonia, Sozousa
Plieades ID: 678025

Place name(s): Apollonia, Sozousa, Portus Cyrenorum
Plieades ID: 373732

Place name(s): Arcadia, Pelasgia
Plieades ID: 570102

Place name(s): Argolis, Argea
Plieades ID: 570104

Place name(s): Argos
Plieades ID: 554192

Place name(s): Argos
Plieades ID: 573117

Place name(s): Argos
Plieades ID: 595699

Place name(s): Argos
Plieades ID: 631184

Place name(s): Argos
Plieades ID: 711220

Place name(s): Argos, Pelasgia
Plieades ID: 570106

Place name(s): Aricia
Plieades ID: 422844

Place name(s): Asia
Plieades ID: 915832

Place name(s): Asia M.
Plieades ID: 573123

Place name(s): Asine
Plieades ID: 711213

Place name(s): Asine, Asinaia
Plieades ID: 570124

Place name(s): Athenae, Athens
Plieades ID: 579885

Place name(s): Attica, Bergida
Plieades ID: 240868

Place name(s): Aulis
Plieades ID: 579889

Place name(s): Babylon, Babil
Plieades ID: 893951

Place name(s): Byzantium
Plieades ID: 520985

Place name(s): Cadiz, Gadeira, Gades, Col. Augusta Gaditana, Urbs Iulia Gaditana
Plieades ID: 256177

Place name(s): Campania
Plieades ID: 432742

Place name(s): Campania
Plieades ID: 991350

Place name(s): Caria
Plieades ID: 599564

Place name(s): Carthago
Plieades ID: 314921

Place name(s): Chalcis
Plieades ID: 540703

Place name(s): Chryse
Plieades ID: 550501

Place name(s): Chryse
Plieades ID: 554214

Place name(s): Chryse, Aurea
Plieades ID: 60485

Place name(s): Colophon
Plieades ID: 599577

Place name(s): Colophon, Colophon ad Mare, Notion
Plieades ID: 599578

Place name(s): Constantinopolis
Plieades ID: 520998

Place name(s): Cora
Plieades ID: 422909

Place name(s): Corcyra
Plieades ID: 530835

Place name(s): Corfu, Corcyra
Plieades ID: 530834

Place name(s): Corinthus, Aigiales, Aigialos, Sicyonia, Corinth, Korinthos
Plieades ID: 570182

Place name(s): Creta
Plieades ID: 589748

Place name(s): Creta et Cyrene, Cyrene
Plieades ID: 981517

Place name(s): Croton, Croto, Crotona
Plieades ID: 452317

Place name(s): Cumae, Kyme
Plieades ID: 432808

Place name(s): Cybistra
Plieades ID: 648614

Place name(s): Cyprus
Plieades ID: 707498

Place name(s): Cyrene, Claudiopolis
Plieades ID: 373778

Place name(s): Cyzicus
Plieades ID: 511218

Place name(s): Daulis
Plieades ID: 540723

Place name(s): Delos
Plieades ID: 599587

Place name(s): Delos
Plieades ID: 599588

Place name(s): Delphi
Plieades ID: 540726

Place name(s): Dirphys M.
Plieades ID: 540736

Place name(s): Dodona
Plieades ID: 543686

Place name(s): Dodona, Dodone
Plieades ID: 530843

Place name(s): Eleusis
Plieades ID: 579920

Place name(s): Eleusis
Plieades ID: 730111

Place name(s): Eleusis
Plieades ID: 741459

Place name(s): Elis
Plieades ID: 570220

Place name(s): Elis
Plieades ID: 570221

Place name(s): Elis
Plieades ID: 573200

Place name(s): Ephesus, Arsinoeia, Arsinoe
Plieades ID: 599612

Place name(s): Ephyra
Plieades ID: 543701

Place name(s): Ephyra
Plieades ID: 573208

Place name(s): Ephyra, Kichyros
Plieades ID: 530870

Place name(s): Epidauros, Epidauria
Plieades ID: 570228

Place name(s): Epirus
Plieades ID: 530871

Place name(s): Eryx
Plieades ID: 409967

Place name(s): Eryx
Plieades ID: 462201

Place name(s): Eryx M.
Plieades ID: 462202

Place name(s): Euboea
Plieades ID: 540775

Place name(s): Euripos
Plieades ID: 540783

Place name(s): Europe
Plieades ID: 536074

Place name(s): Fistelia, Fensermia, Hyria
Plieades ID: 438737

Place name(s): Gaza
Plieades ID: 687902

Place name(s): Glisas
Plieades ID: 540791

Place name(s): Hadrumetum, Iustinianopolis
Plieades ID: 324716

Place name(s): Hellas
Plieades ID: 1001896

Place name(s): Helos, Hele
Plieades ID: 570286

Place name(s): Henna, Enna
Plieades ID: 462236

Place name(s): Heraclea
Plieades ID: 151774

Place name(s): Heraclea, Heracliotes
Plieades ID: 465906

Place name(s): Hermione
Plieades ID: 329217

Place name(s): Hermione, Hermion
Plieades ID: 570292

Place name(s): Hymettos
Plieades ID: 579954

Place name(s): Hymettos M.
Plieades ID: 579955

Place name(s): Hyria
Plieades ID: 540830

Place name(s): Ilium, Troia
Plieades ID: 550595

Place name(s): Italia
Plieades ID: 1052

Place name(s): Ithaca
Plieades ID: 530905

Place name(s): Ithaca
Plieades ID: 530906

Place name(s): Knosos, Col. Iulia Nobilis Cnosos
Plieades ID: 589872

Place name(s): Lacedaemon, Laconia
Plieades ID: 570406

Place name(s): Laertes
Plieades ID: 648685

Place name(s): Laertes M.
Plieades ID: 648686

Place name(s): Laodicea
Plieades ID: 897792

Place name(s): Laodicea, Laodikene, Mazabda
Plieades ID: 668290

Place name(s): Larisa
Plieades ID: 222103

Place name(s): Larissa
Plieades ID: 540905

Place name(s): Larissa, Larisa
Plieades ID: 550683

Place name(s): Latium
Plieades ID: 432900

Place name(s): Lebadeia
Plieades ID: 540907

Place name(s): Lemnos
Plieades ID: 550693

Place name(s): Lerna
Plieades ID: 570424

Place name(s): Leros
Plieades ID: 599763

Place name(s): Leros
Plieades ID: 599764

Place name(s): Lesbos
Plieades ID: 550696

Place name(s): Liguria
Plieades ID: 383698

Place name(s): Lilybaeum
Plieades ID: 462281

Place name(s): Lilybaeum Pr.
Plieades ID: 462282

Place name(s): Lydia, Maionia
Plieades ID: 550701

Place name(s): Macedonia
Plieades ID: 491656

Place name(s): Macedonia
Plieades ID: 981531

Place name(s): Macedonia
Plieades ID: 991368

Place name(s): Magnesia
Plieades ID: 540923

Place name(s): Magnesia ad Sipylum
Plieades ID: 550706

Place name(s): Mantineia, Antigoneia
Plieades ID: 570459

Place name(s): Marseille, Massalia, Massilia
Plieades ID: 148127

Place name(s): Megalopolis
Plieades ID: 321678

Place name(s): Megalopolis
Plieades ID: 570467

Place name(s): Megara
Plieades ID: 543777

Place name(s): Megara
Plieades ID: 570468

Place name(s): Megara
Plieades ID: 674250

Place name(s): Megaris
Plieades ID: 570470

Place name(s): Melas
Plieades ID: 543781

Place name(s): Melas
Plieades ID: 658530

Place name(s): Melas
Plieades ID: 658531

Place name(s): Melas, Peiros
Plieades ID: 573364

Place name(s): Melos
Plieades ID: 536106

Place name(s): Melos
Plieades ID: 570474

Place name(s): Melos
Plieades ID: 570475

Place name(s): Memphis
Plieades ID: 736963

Place name(s): Memphis
Plieades ID: 741517

Place name(s): Messene, Ithome
Plieades ID: 570479

Place name(s): Messenia
Plieades ID: 570480

Place name(s): Midea
Plieades ID: 570485

Place name(s): Miletus
Plieades ID: 599799

Place name(s): Minoa
Plieades ID: 594982

Place name(s): Minoa Pr.
Plieades ID: 570487

Place name(s): Minoia, Minoa, Minoida
Plieades ID: 606336

Place name(s): Mycenae
Plieades ID: 570491

Place name(s): Napoli, Naples, Parthenope, Neapolis
Plieades ID: 433014

Place name(s): Naulochon, Smyrna, Palaia Smyrna, Bayrakli
Plieades ID: 550771

Place name(s): Naupactus
Plieades ID: 540960

Place name(s): Naxos
Plieades ID: 462386

Place name(s): Naxos
Plieades ID: 599821

Place name(s): Naxos
Plieades ID: 599822

Place name(s): Nea Paphos, Paphos, Erythrai, Erythra, Sebaste Claudia Flavia Paphos
Plieades ID: 707586

Place name(s): Nemea
Plieades ID: 570504

Place name(s): Nemea
Plieades ID: 570505

Place name(s): Nilus
Plieades ID: 727172

Place name(s): Nysa
Plieades ID: 60594

Place name(s): Nysa
Plieades ID: 606343

Place name(s): Nysa, Athymbra
Plieades ID: 599832

Place name(s): Oea, Macar Oea, Oeenses
Plieades ID: 344456

Place name(s): Olympia
Plieades ID: 570531

Place name(s): Olympus M.
Plieades ID: 491677

Place name(s): Oxyrhynchus, Pemje
Plieades ID: 736983

Place name(s): Pagasai
Plieades ID: 540998

Place name(s): Palaipaphos, Paphos, Pa-ap-pa
Plieades ID: 707596

Place name(s): Pallene
Plieades ID: 580051

Place name(s): Paros
Plieades ID: 599867

Place name(s): Paros
Plieades ID: 599868

Place name(s): Pelion M.
Plieades ID: 541021

Place name(s): Pellene
Plieades ID: 570576

Place name(s): Pellene
Plieades ID: 573434

Place name(s): Peloponnesus, Apia, Inachia
Plieades ID: 570577

Place name(s): Pergamon
Plieades ID: 507447

Place name(s): Pergamum
Plieades ID: 550812

Place name(s): Perinthus, Heraclea
Plieades ID: 511357

Place name(s): Phocaea
Plieades ID: 550823

Place name(s): Phrygia
Plieades ID: 585947

Place name(s): Phrygia
Plieades ID: 897830

Place name(s): Pieria
Plieades ID: 491696

Place name(s): Pisa
Plieades ID: 570612

Place name(s): Pisae
Plieades ID: 403253

Place name(s): Plataea
Plieades ID: 541063

Place name(s): Prosymna
Plieades ID: 573485

Place name(s): Psophis
Plieades ID: 536810

Place name(s): Psophis, Phegeia
Plieades ID: 570638

Place name(s): Rhegion, Regium
Plieades ID: 452416

Place name(s): Roma, Rome
Plieades ID: 423025

Place name(s): Sardis, Hyde
Plieades ID: 550867

Place name(s): Scythia
Plieades ID: 60673

Place name(s): Scythia
Plieades ID: 60674

Place name(s): Scythia
Plieades ID: 60675

Place name(s): Sebasteia, Megalopolis, Talaura
Plieades ID: 629075

Place name(s): Selinus
Plieades ID: 462489

Place name(s): Septem Fratres M.
Plieades ID: 275704

Place name(s): Shushan, Shusha, Susa, Seleucia ad Eulaeum, Shush-i er-Kar
Plieades ID: 912936

Place name(s): Sicilia
Plieades ID: 981549

Place name(s): Sicilia
Plieades ID: 991353

Place name(s): Sicyon, Demetrias, Aigialeia, Mekora
Plieades ID: 570668

Place name(s): Sidon, Col. Aurelia Pia
Plieades ID: 678393

Place name(s): Smyrna, Eurydikeia, Zmyrna
Plieades ID: 550893

Place name(s): Sparta
Plieades ID: 570685

Place name(s): Sybaris
Plieades ID: 452458

Place name(s): Sybaris
Plieades ID: 452459

Place name(s): Sybaris
Plieades ID: 573537

Place name(s): Sybaris, Thurii, Copia
Plieades ID: 452457

Place name(s): Syria
Plieades ID: 531110

Place name(s): Tarsus, Antiochia ad Cydnum
Plieades ID: 648789

Place name(s): Tegea
Plieades ID: 570707

Place name(s): Tegea
Plieades ID: 595004

Place name(s): Tenedos
Plieades ID: 550911

Place name(s): Tenedos
Plieades ID: 550912

Place name(s): Tenos
Plieades ID: 573548

Place name(s): Tenos
Plieades ID: 590073

Place name(s): Tenos
Plieades ID: 590074

Place name(s): Teutheas
Plieades ID: 570712

Place name(s): Thasos
Plieades ID: 501634

Place name(s): Thasos
Plieades ID: 501635

Place name(s): Thebae, Thiva, Thebes, Thebae
Plieades ID: 541138

Place name(s): Thebes east, Diospolis Magna, Thebai
Plieades ID: 786017

Place name(s): Thera
Plieades ID: 599971

Place name(s): Thera Ins.
Plieades ID: 599973

Place name(s): Thera, Tira
Plieades ID: 222205

Place name(s): Thermopylae
Plieades ID: 541140

Place name(s): Thespiai
Plieades ID: 541141

Place name(s): Thessalia
Plieades ID: 1001895

Place name(s): Thessalia
Plieades ID: 1332

Place name(s): Thessalia
Plieades ID: 991374

Place name(s): Thetideion
Plieades ID: 541144

Place name(s): Thrake
Plieades ID: 1001889

Place name(s): Tiryns
Plieades ID: 570740

Place name(s): Torone
Plieades ID: 501646

Place name(s): Trachis, Herakleia
Plieades ID: 541157

Place name(s): Tripolis
Plieades ID: 573572

Place name(s): Tripolis
Plieades ID: 573573

Place name(s): Tripolis
Plieades ID: 573574

Place name(s): Zacynthus
Plieades ID: 531154

Place name(s): Zacynthus, Hyrie
Plieades ID: 531155

Should we provide links to outside resources?
We're already adding in pleiades.stoa.org links for places, but we *could* add links to other places where appropriate. For example, we *could* add wikipedia/perseus links to characters. Are there any online resources we can add that look specifically at events?

note: the Pleiades links may be easier to add - I need to look at the rdf resource that you can get for each text (e.g. Apol. rdf is here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/xml/Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022.pleiades.rdf - note the end bit '1999.01.0022' which is the Perseus id for Apollodorus in English).
Inside the rdf file each instance of a place is inserted, but without a place name!.
We can at least break down the resource based on section markers, though, as sections are internally referred to like this: "perseus-eng1:2.8" which refers to section 2.8, so it's trivial to chop the rdf file in to chunks.
If we end up with an rdf fragment we can further reduce it to the unique occurrences of oac:hasBody tags within the section. I *think* each place is referred to sequentially, so RAs should not have a too-hard job of extracting Pleiades IDs from the fragments.

The map is coming along. You can now add places to the map and show information (associated characters, events and citations). What you *can't* do is click on the character name/event description/citation and get further detail.
I've also added gender to every character. In the 720 cases I couldn't deduce gender I've added 'unknown' so we have a target when filling in the blanks. If you want to see the gender for a character, click on their name to show the details panel and you'll see the gender in the description widget.

I have checked from Iliad 2.1 to Iliad 2.485, where the Catalogue of Ships starts, to see if the terms "Achaeans," "Argives," "Danaans" and "Trojans" are reflecting and preserving the actual terms used in the Greek text. This is the case almost all of the time. I checked dozens of instances of "Achaeans" et al. in the Butler translation, and found only two cases where the English term was not an translation of the appropriate corresponding Greek term. At Il. 2.15, "Achaeans" is used to translate the Greek for Argives (Άργείοισιν), and at Il. 2.390, "Achaeans" is used for the Greek "Argives" again (Άργεῖοι).

When one of the Greek group names is used in the Greek text, it is not always reflected in the English translation. For example, it might be translated "the people" or "the army," or it might be omitted entirely. This is usually only done when the same term has been used in the Greek shortly before, and avoids repetition in the English translation. Therefore, although English does not reflect every single instance of each Greek term, it does give a fairly accurate sense of the frequency of each term and the environment in which each term appears.

I think it is worthwhile to preserve the distinction between these terms by listing them as separate groups, rather than merging them into one group and calling the other terms akas. It would still be useful, however, to have a way to see and refer to the Greek forces at Troy collectively. Is there a way to make them sub-groups of a group called "Greeks," for example?

As it stands in the Iliad, whenever someone is referred to as the "son of X," "X" is marked up, but "son" is not. This means that in a reference to, for example, "the son of Kronos," although Kronos' (dubious) presence in the text is signalled, Zeus' presence is not signalled, although he is the actual referrent of the expression "son of Kronos."

To solve this problem, I have decided that for the Iliad, where characters are very frequently referred to by their patronyms, phrases like "son of X" should be marked up to point to the son, and the markup that points to the father should be taken out. The father should show up in the son's family relationships.

The situation is Apollodorus is different, and the same approach should not be taken. Because Apollodorus is very often explicity describing genealogical relationships and is very concerned with genealogy, it is appropriate to mark up both parent and child separately in the phrase "son of X". Apollodorus does not use the phrase "son of X" to identify someone in lieu of their name, but in order to explain the genealogy of a person who has already been identified by name, as in "Bellerophon, son of Glaucus".

To be totally clear: in the Iliad, when "X, son of Y" shows up, both X and Y should be marked up on their own. But, as frequently happens, when the phrase is just "son of Y," and the name of X is not given in anywhere near the phrase, then "son of Y" should be marked up with the identity of X.

I will start making this change in Iliad 2.

So while reading the Apollodorus text I was looking at the events in section 3.10.2 and saw that the place xml:id=pylos was showing up on the site as "pylospylus"; "pylus" is the "AKA" for "pylos".
After discussing this with Greg we established that it's a coding error. The "placeName" is being pulled for both and seeing as "pylus" is under "placeName" too it's getting attached to "pylos". We looked at other places and saw that "corinth" and "ephyra" is doing the same thing because "ephyra" is under the "placeName" "AKA" too.

Greg is going to look into it and fix the coding.

Alright, I'm going to try and be concise and specific. I came across the character Perieres (xml#perieres_1) in Apollodorus 1.9.5. It states:

"Perieres took possession of Messene and married Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus, by whom he had sons, to wit, Aphareus and Leucippus, and Tyndareus, and also Icarius. But many say that Perieres was not the son of Aeolus but of Cynortas, son of Amyclas"

Looking into it I found that there are two different Perieres's (xml#perieres_1 and xml#perieres_2). Both have the same wife, Gorgophone (xml#gorgophone_1) and the same children; except perieres_2 has an additional child Oebalus (xml#oebalus).

perieres_1 has two possible fathers; Aeolus (xml#aeolus_1) and Cynortas (xml#cynortas), and perieres_2 has Cynortes (xml#cynortes).
Looking into these characters I've started wondering if maybe perieres_1 and perieres_2 are the same character as well as cynortas and cynortes. Researching cynortes or cynortas online they come up as the same character with the same child; Perieres. They also have the same father, Amyclas (amyclas_3 and amyclas_2).

Do we make perieres_ and perieres_2 one? as well as cynortas and cynortes?
Anyway, I will attach my notes on the matter.

The Harpies (group.xml#harpies) are said to be the daughters of Thaumas (xml#thaumas) and Electra (xml#electra_1) in Apollodorus 1.2.6. In the text it says;
"Now to Thaumas and Electra
were born Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete"

In characters.xml Iris (xml#iris), Aello (xml#aello) and Ocypete (xml#ocypete_1) are all recorded as the children of Thaumas and Electra.
However; when looking at group.xml#harpies there are several different characters stated as the Harpies:
Aello (xml#aello), Aellopus (xml#aellopus), Harpys (xml#harpys), Nicothoe (xml#nicothoe, Ocypete (xml#ocypete_1), Ocypode (xml#ocypode), Ocythoe (xml#ocythoe).

I was searching around in Apollodorus and in section 1.9.21 it says:

"Now it was fated that the Harpies should perish by the sons of Boreas, and that the sons of Boreas should die when they could not catch up a fugitive. So the Harpies were pursued and one of them fell into the river Tigres in Peloponnese, the river that is now called Harpys after her; some call her Nicothoe, but others Aellopus. But the other, named Ocypete or, according to others, Ocythoe (but Hesiod calls her Ocypode) fled".

From reading that text I feel that there are only two Harpies (aello and ocypete_1) and the other chracters.xml's made were the AKA's of these two. Am I right in assuming this?

SBE has completed his terse character descriptions. Here they are:

sky: first ruler oof the universe
earth: married to sky
briareus: a hundred-hander
gyes: a hundred-hander
cottus: a hundred-hander
arges: a cyclopes
steropes: a cyclopes
brontes: a cyclopes
ocean: a titan
coeus: a titan
crius: a titan
iapetus: a titan
cronus: The leader of the titans. lead the revolt against sky
tethys: a titan
rhea: a titan, married to cronus
themis: a titan
mnemosyne: a titan
thia: a titan
alecto: a fury
megaera: a fury
hestia: the olympian god of the heart
demeter: the olympian god of fertility
hera: the olympian god of motherhood, married to zeus
pluto: the olympian god of the underworld
poseidon: the olympian god of the ocean
zeus: the leader of the olympians, god of the sky
adrastia: a nymph that reared zeus
ida: a nymph that reared zeus
metis: gave cronus a drug to make him throw up his children he had eaten
campe: who guarded the cyclopes in tartaros
asia: the oceanid
styx: the oceanid
doris: the oceanid
latona: daughter of coeus and phoebe_1
dawn: daughter of hyperion_1 and thia
sun_(helios): son of hyperion_1 and thia
moon: daughter of hyperion_1 and thia
astraeus: son of crius and eurybia_1
atlas: who hold's the sky on his shoulders
prometheus: who gave humans fire
epimetheus: son of iapetus and asia
chiron: the centaur teacher of achilles
hecate: daughter of perses_1 and asteria_1
victory: daughter of pallas_1 and styx
dominion: son of pallas_1 and styx
emulation: son of pallas_1 and styx
violence: daughter of pallas_1 and styx
phorcus: son of pontus and earth
thaumas: son of pontus and earth
nereus: son of pontus and earth
iris: son of thaumas and electra_1
aello/nicothoe/aellopus: daughter of thaumas and electra_1
cymothoe: the nereid
spio: the nereid
glauconome: the nereid
nausithoe: the nereid
halie: the nereid
sao: the nereid
eunice: the nereid
thetis: the nereid, mother of achilles
eulimene: the nereid
eudore: the nereid
doto: the nereid
pherusa: the nereid
galatea: the nereid
pontomedusa: the nereid
cymo: the nereid
eione: the nereid
halimede: the nereid
plexaure: the nereid
eucrante: the nereid
proto: the nereid
cranto: the nereid
neomeris: the nereid
hipponoe: the nereid
ianira: the nereid
polynome: the nereid
melite: the nereid
nesaea: the nereid
dero: the nereid
evagore: the nereid
psamathe: the nereid
eumolpe: the nereid
ione: the nereid
dynamene: the nereid
limnoria: the nereid
hebe: personification of youth, married to hercules
ilithyia: the god of childbirth
ares: the olympian god of war
peace: the season
order: the season
justice: the season
clotho: the fate
lachesis: the fate
atropus: the fate
aphrodite: the olympian god of beauty
euphrosyne: the grace
persephone: abducted and married by pluto
calliope: the muse
clio: the muse
melpomene: the muse
euterpe: the muse
terpsichore: the muse
urania: the muse
polymnia: the muse
orpheus: the argonaut, went to the underworld to retrieve his wife, eurydice_1.
pierus: son of magnes
thamyris: challenged the muses to a contest of music, lost and had his eyes gouged out and lost his ability to sing
rhesus: killed by diomedes at troy
the_corybantes: semi-divine beings that attended the orgiastic rituals of the gods
hephaestus: the olympian god of the forge0
athena: the olympian god of wisdom and war
artemis: the olympian god of the hunt
apollo: the olympian god divination and art
python: the guardian of the oracle at delphi
pan: taught apollo the art of divination
elare: hidden underground by zeus to protect her from hera's wrath
tityus: fell in love with leto and was killed by her children
marsyas: flayed by apollo after losing a flute contest.
side: sent to hades by hera because she rivaled the god's beauty
orion: the archer, killed by artimis after losing a discus contest or for having raped a virgin of the hyperboreans
triton: brought up athena
celeus: king of the eleusinians
iambe: the crone at eleusis that made demeter laugh
metanira: wufe of celeus
triptolemus: given a chariot pulled by dragons by demeter and given wheat to sew across the world
porphyrion: mightiest of the giants, immortal as long as he touched the ground, killed by zeus' thunderbolt
alcyoneus: the giant, immortal as long as he touched the ground, killed by hercules
mimas: the giant, killed by hephaestos
polybotes: the giant, killed by poseidon
gration: the giant killed by artimis
delphyne: the she-dragon that guarded zeus while he was incapacitated by typhon
aegipan: helped hermes retrieve zeus' tendons from typhon
typhon: a huge beast. Human down to the waist, with wings, from his arms sprouted dragons heads, and below his waist were coils of vipers, killed by zeus by throwing mount etna on him
pandora: the first woman, opened the box
pyrrha: the wife of deucalion_1
hellen: son of pyrrha and deucalion_1
amphictyon: king of attica after cranaus
aethlius: son protogenia_1 and zeus
xuthus: king of the peloponnese
acheus: eponymous character of the achaeans
ion: eponymous character of the ionians
enarte: married aeolus_1
cretheus: son of aeolus_1 and enarte
sisyphus: punished in hades by having to roll a stone up a hill only to have it tumble back down for eternity
athamas: son of aeolus_1 and enarte
salmoneus: son of aeolus_1 and enarte
deion: son of aeolus_1 and enarte
canace: daughter of aeolus_1 and enarte
alycone: daughter of aeolus_1 and enarte
pisidice: daughter of aeolus_1 and enarte
calyce: daughter of aeolus_1 and enarte
aloeus: son of canace and poseidon
triops: son of canace and poseidon
iphimedia: married aloeus
otus: the aloed, grew one cubit broader and one fathom higher each year
endymion: lead the aeolians out of thessaly and founded elis
aetolus: the eponymous character of aetolia
apis: son of phoroneus
pronoe: married aetolus
pleuron: son of aetolus and pronoe, named his city after himself
calydon: son of aetolus and pronoe, named his city after himself
xanthippe: married pleuron
laophonte: daughter of pleauron and xanthippe
aeolia: married calydon
porthaon: soon of agenor_1 and epicaste_1
demonice: bore evenus, molus, pylus and thestius to ares
evenus: son of ares and demonice
molus: son of ares and demonice
pylus: son of ares and demonice
thestius: son of ares and demonice
marpessa: carried of in a winged chariot by idas_1 son of apharius
eurythemis: married thestius
althaea: daughter of thestius and eurythemis
leda: daughter of thestius and eurythemis
evippus: a participant at the calydonian boar hunt
plexippus: a participant at the calydonian boar hunt
alcathous: son of porthaon and euryte_1
leucopeus: son of porthaon and euryte_1
toxeus: killed by his father oeneus_1 for jumping over a ditch
thyreus: son of oeneus_1 and althaea
meleager: the invulnerable son of oeneus_1, participated in the calydonian boar hunt
castor: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
pollux: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
theseus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
admetus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
ancaeus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt, killed by the boar
jason: Sent to retrieve the golden fleece on the ship argo, participated in the calydonian boar hunt
iphicles: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
peleus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt, struck down eurytion_1 during the hunt
telamon: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
atalanta: participated in the calydonian boar hunt, first to strike the boar
amphiaraus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt
hyleus: participated in the calydonian boar hunt. killed by the boar
hippostratus: seduced periboea_1
tydeus: exiled for killing either his uncle or his cousins
pheneus: son of melas_1
hyperlaus: son of melas_1
sternops: son of melas_1
xanthippus: son of melas_1
sthenelaus: son of melas_1
olenias: brother of tydeus
deipyle: married tydeus
onchestus: son of agrius_2, stole oeneus_1's kingdom and gave it to his father
celeutor: son of agrius_2, stole oeneus_1's kingdom and gave it to his father
lycopeus: son of agrius_2, stole oeneus_1's kingdom and gave it to his father
aegialia: married to diomedes_1
phrixus: son of athamas and nephele
helle: daughter of athamas and nephele
learchus: son of athamas and ino, killed by his father in a fit of madness
melicertes: son of athamas and ino, flung into the sea with his mother
aeetes: the ruler of the colchians
circe: who captured odysseus' crew and changed them into pigs and wolves
pasiphae: the wife of minos
phrontis: son of phrius and chalciope_1
cytisorus: son of phrius and chalciope_1
themisto: married athamas
leucon: son of athamas and themisto
erythrius: son of athamas and themisto
schoeneus: son of athamas and themisto
ptous: son of athamas and themisto
bellerophon: who killed the chimera
aegina: who was carried off by zeus
asterodia: daughter of deion and diomede_1
aenetus: son of deion and diomede_1
phylacus: son of deion and diomede_1
aphareus: son of perieres_1 and gorgophone_1
cynortas: son of amyclas_3
polydectes: who colonized seriphus
dictys: who colonized seriphus
tyro: who fell in love with the river enipeus
enipeus: a river
sidero: stepmother of tyro
pelias: son of poseidon and tyro
neleus: founded pylos
chloris: married neleus
taurus: son of neleus and chloris, killed by hercules
pylaon: son of neleus and chloris, killed by hercules
epilaus: son of neleus and chloris, killed by hercules
eurymenes: son of neleus and chloris, killed by hercules
alastor: son of neleus and chloris, killed by hercules
polycaste: daughter of nestor_1 and anaxibia_1
stratichus: son of nestor_1 and anaxibia_1
pisistratus: son of nestor_1 and anaxibia_1
antilochus: son of nestor_1 and anaxibia_1, a suitor of helen
phylomache: daughter of amphion
acastus: the argonaut
alcestis: daughter of pelias and anaxibia_2
aeson: son of cretheus and tyro
amythaon: son of cretheus and tyro
idomene: married amythaon
melampus: learned to understand the cries of birds from snakes that purified his ears
talaus: son of bias_1 and pero_1
pronax: son of talaus and lysimache_1
eriphyle: daughter of talus and lysimache_1
amphithea: daughter of pronax
cyanippus: daughter of adrastus_1 and amphithea
opheltes/archemorus: son of lycurgus_2 and eurydice_5
polymede: daughter of amphitryon
tiphys: the argonaut
zetes: the argonaut
calais: the argonaut
hercules: the argonaut
autolycus: the argonaut
poeas: the argonaut
phanus: the argonaut
staphylus: the argonaut
leitus: the argonaut
ialmenus: the argonaut
hypsipyle: queen of lemnos
euneus: son of jason and hypsipyle
nebrophonus: son of jason and hypsipyle
cyzicus: king of the doliones
hylas: the argonaut
tmolus: married omphale
omphale: married tmolus
amycus: ruler of the bebryces
idyia: daughter of oceanus
medea: a sorceress, married jason
apsyrtus: accompanied his sister medea when she left with the argonauts
alcinous: king of the phaeacians
arete: queen of the phaeacians
talos: the bronz man made by hephaestus that protected crete
mermerus: son of jason and medeam killed by medea
medus: son of aegeus and medea
inachus: son of ocean ans tethys
melia: married inachus
phoroneus: son of inachus and melia
apis, sarapis: named the peleponnese apia after himself
telchis: killed apis, killed by argus_2
thelxion: killed apis killed by argus_2
ecbasus: son of argus_2 and evadne_1
piras: son of argus_2 and evadne_1
epidaurus: son of argus_2 and evadne_1
criasus: son of argus_2 and evadne_1
echidna: daughter of tartarus and earth, killed by argus_2
io: seduced by zeus and turned into a white cow by hera
epaphus: son of zeus and io, stolen by hera, became king of egypt
byblus: king of syria
memphis: martied epaphus
libya: daughter of epaphus and memphis, after whom lybia is called
belus: became king of egypt after his father epaphus
anchinoe: married belus
danaus: king of lybia, later argos too, married his fifty daughters to egyptus_1's fifty sons
gelanor: king of argos befor danaus
amymone: was shown the springs of lyrna by poseidon after he chased away the satyr that was trying to rape her
automate: daughter of danaus, married busiris_1
scaea: daughter of danaus, married daiphron_1
istrus: son of egyptus_1 married hippodamia_1
rhodia: daughter of danaus, married chalcodon
chaetus: son of egyptus_1, married asteria_2
diocorystes: son of egyptus_1, married hippodamia_2
alces: son of egyptus_1, married glauce_2
alcemnor: son of egyptus_1, married hippomedusa
hippomedusa: daughter of danaus, married alcmenor
euchenor: son of egyptus_1, married iphimedusa
iphimedusa: daughter of danaus, married
agaptolemus: son of egyptus_1, married pirene
pirene: daughter of danaus, married agaptolemus
cercetes: son of egyptus_1, married dorium
dorium: daughter of danaus, married cercetes
eurydamas: son of egyptus_1, married phartis
phartis: daughter of danaus, married eurydamas
aegius: son of egyptus_1, married mnestra
mnestra: daughter of danaus, married aegius
archelaus: son of egyptus_1, married anaxibia_3
menemachus: son of egyptus_1, married nelo
nelo: daughter of danaus, married menemachus
clitus: son of egyptus_1, married clite
clite: daughter of danaus, married clitus
chrysippe: daughter of danaus, married chrysippus_1
phantes: son of egyptus_1, married theano
theano: daughter of danaus, married phantes
peristhenes: son of egyptus_1, married electra_2
hermus: son of egyptus_1, married cleopatra_3
potamon: son of egyptus_1, married glaucippe
glaucippe: daughter of danaus, married potamon
anthelia: daughter of danaus, married cisseus_1
lixus: son of egyptus_1, married cleodore
cleodore: daughter of danaus, married lixus
imbrus: son of egyptus_1, married evippe_2
bromius: son of egyptus_1, married erato_3
polyctor: son of egyptus_1, married stygne
stygne: daughter of danaus, married polyctor
bryce: daughter of danaus, married cthonius_1
periphas: son of egyptus_1, married actaea_2
podarce: daughter of danaus, married oeneus_2
dioxippe: daughter of danaus, married egyptus_2
menalces: son of egyptus_1, married adite
adite: daughter of danaus, married menalces
pylarge: daughter of danaus, married idmon_2
hippodice: daughter of danaus, married idas_2
adiante: son of egyptus_1, married diaphron_2
arbelus: son of egyptus_1, married oeme
oeme: daughter of danaus, married arbelus
hyperbius: son of egyptus_1, married celaeno_1
hippocorystes: son of egyptus_1, married hyperippe
hyperippe: daughter of danaus, married hippocorystes
nauplius: sailed the seas a lured sailors to their deaths
palamedes: son of nauplius and clymese_1
oeax: son of nauplius and clymese_1
nausimedon: son of nauplius and clymese_1
acrisius: son of nauplius and clymese_1
iobates: king of lycia
amphianax: king of lycia
antia/stheneboea: princess of lycia
danae: daughter of acrisius and eurydice_3
iphinoe: daughter of protius and antia/stheneboea, went mad by disparaging a staute of hera, cured by melampus
iphianassa: daughter of protius and antia/stheneboea, went mad by disparaging a staute of hera, cured by melampus
deliades/piren/alcimenes: killed by his brother, bellerophon
pegasus: winged horse rode by bellerophon2:48 PM 17/12/2011
philonoe: married bellerophon
enyo: the phorcide, had one eye and one tooth that they shared between themselves
pephredo: the phorcide, had one eye and one tooth that they shared between themselves
dino: the phorcide, had one eye and one tooth that they shared between themselves
stheno: the gorgon
euryale: the gorgon
chrysaor: the giant born from the neck of medusa_1 when she was killed
geryon: had the bodies of three men united at the waist, hercules was sent to retrieve his cattle
andromeda: was saved by a married perseus_2
teutamides: king of larissa
heleus: son of perseus_2 and andromeda
electryon: son of perseus_2 and andromeda
amphitryon: son of perseus_2 and andromeda
laonome: daughter of guneus_2
anaxo: married electryon
hipponome: daughter of menoeceus_2
taphius: collonized taphos
pterelaus: made immortal by poseidon by planting golden hair in his head
tyrannus: son of pterelaus
alcmena: daughter of electryon and anaxo
stratobates: son of electryon and anaxo
gorgophonus: son of electryon and anaxo
phylonomus: son of electryon and anaxo
celaeneus: son of electryon and anaxo
lysinomus: son of electryon and anaxo
chirimachus: son of electryon and anaxo
anactor: son of electryon and anaxo
archelaus: son of electryon and anaxo
licymnius: illigitimate son of electryon and midea, a phrygian
eurystheus: ruler of mycenae
atreus: king of mycenae, twin on tyestes
thyestes: king of mycenae, twin og atreus
panopeus: an ally from phocis of amphitryon
comaetho: daughter of pterelaus, who plucked the golden hair from her father's head thus killing him
thespius: king of the thespiae
megamede: daughter of arneus
megara: married hercules
therimachus: son of Hercules and megara
creontiades: son of Hercules and megara
deicoon: son of Hercules and megara
iolaus: married megara
automedusa: daughter of alcathus_1
rhadamanthys: son of zeus and europa
molorchus: a labourer who hercules stayed with while hunting the nemean lion
nemean_lion: son of typhon
copreus: fled to mycenae after killing iphitos
pholus: the centaur
anchius: the centaur
nessus: the centaur
dexamenus: forced to give his daughter to the centaur eurytion_2
mnesimache: almost forced to marry eurytin_2 but saved by hercules
abderus: charged to guard diomedes' mares by hercules, but was eaten by them
admete: daughter of eurystheus, wanted the belt of hippolyte the amazon
eurymedon: son of minos and a nymph paria, killed by hercules
nephalion: son of minos and a nymph paria, killed by hercules
philolaus: son of minos and a nymph paria, killed by hercules
androgeus: son of minos and a nymph paria, killed by hercules
mygdon: brother of amycus
poltys: who entertained hercules at ainos
polygonus: challenged hercules to a wrestling match
orthus: a two-headed dog that guarded the cattle of geryon
ialebion: tried to rob hercules of the cattle of geryon
dercynus: tried to rob hercules of the cattle of geryon
eryx: king of the elymi
aegle: one of the hesperides
erythia: one of the hesperides
hesperia: one of the hesperides
arethusa: one of the hesperides
antaeus: ruler of lybia
emathion: son of tithonus, killed by hercules in arabia
pylius: the adoptive father of hercules
menoetes: herdsman for the cattle of hades, challenged hercules to a wrestling match
iole: offered to hercules if he could defeat ceuthonymus and his sons at archery
cercopes: two bothers that tried to rob hercules
syleus: a man who would force people to dig in his vinyard, killed by hercules
xenodoce: daughter of syleus, killed by hercules
icarus: son of daedalus, flew to close to the sun an fell into the sea
oicles: left to guard the ships while hercules sacked troy, killed by laomedon_1
chalcedon: wounded hercules while he attacked troy
auge: daughter of aleus, raped by hercules
teuthras: prince of teuthrania and mysia
tlepolemus: son of hercules and astyoche_1
eunomos: punched to death by hercules
laogoras: king of the dryopes
hippasus: son of ceyx_2
lichas: the herald sent to trachis for fine clothes
hyllus: son of hercules and deianira_1
alexiares: son of hercules and hebe
anicetus: son of hercules and hebe
antileon: son of hercules and procris_2
hippeus: son of hercules and procris_2
threpsippas: son of hercules and panope_2
lyse: daughter of thespius and megamede
epilais: daughter of thespius and megamede
certhe: daughter of thespius and megamede
iobes: son of hercules and certhe
polylaus: son of hercules and eurybia_3
patro: daughter of thespius and megamede
meline: daughter of thespius and megamede
clytippe: daughter of thespius and megamede
eurycapys: son of hercules and clytippe
eubote: daughter of thespius and megamede
antiades: son of hercules and aglaia_3
chryseis: daughter of thespius and megamede
onesippus: son of hercules and chryseis
oriahe: daughter of thespius and megamede
laomenes: son of hercules and oriahe
teles: son of hercules and lysidice_2
menippis: daughter of thespius and megamede
entelides: son of hercules and menippis
anthippe: daughter of thespius and megamede
hippodromus: son of hercules and anthippe
eury...: daughter of thespius and megamede
teleutagoras: son of hercules and eury...
hippo: daughter of thespius and megamede
capylus: son of hercules and hippo
euboea: daughter of thespius and megamede
olympus: son of hercules and euboea
nice: daughter of thespius and megamede
nicodromus: son of hercules and nice
argele: daughter of thespius and megamede
cleolaus: son of hercules and argele
exole: daughter of thespius and megamede
erythas: son of hercules and exole
xanthis: daughter of thespius and megamede
Homolippus: son of hercules and xanthis
atromus: son of hercules and stratonice_2
celeustanor: son of hercules and iphis_1
laothoe: daughter of thespius and megamede
alopius: son of hercules and antiope_1
calametis: daughter of thespius and megamede
astybies: son of hercules and cala,etis
phyleis: daughter of thespius and megamede
tigasis: son of hercules and phyleis
aeschreis: daughter of thespius and megamede
leucones: son of hercules and aeschreis
anthea: daughter of thespius and megamede
eurypyle: daughter of thespius and megamede
archedicus: son of hercules and eurypyle
dynastes: son of hercules and erato_4
asopis: daughter of thespius and megamede
mentor: son of hercules and asopis
eone: daughter of thespius and megamede
amestrius: son of hercules and eone
tiphyse: daughter of thespius and megamede
lyncaeus: son of hercules and tiphyse
olympusa: daughter of thespius and megamede
halocrates: son of hercules and olympusa
heliconis: daughter of thespius and megamede
phalias: son of hercules and heliconis
hesychia: daughter of thespius and megamede
oestrobles: son of hercules and hesychia
terpsicrate: daughter of thespius and megamede
euryopes: son of hercules and terpsicrate
elachia: daughter of thespius and megamede
buleus: son of hercules and elachia
pyrippehe: daughter of thespius and megamede
nephus: son of hercules and praxithea_1
erasippus: son of hercules and lysippe_2
toxicrate: daughter of thespius and megamede
marse: daughter of thespius and megamede
eurytele: daughter of thespius and megamede
hippocrate: daughter of thespius and megamede
hippozygus: son of hercules and hippocrate
glenus: son of hercules and deianira_1
onites: son of hercules and deianira_1
thetallus: son of hercules and chalciope_2
thestalus: son of hercules and epicaste_2
parthenope: daughter of stymphalus
alexander: son of hercules
iphimedon: son of hercules
tisamenus: king of the peloponnesians
cleodaeus: decendent of hercules
temenus: decendent of hercules
arsitodemus: decendent of hercules
eurysthenes: son of aristodemus and argia_2
procles: son of aristodemus and argia_2
hippotes: son of phylas_2, killed a oracle that fortold the doom of his army
pamphylus: son of aegimius_2
cresphontes: got messene when drawing lots with procles and eurysthenes
callias: spurned by his father temenus
hyrnetho: spurned by his father temenus
aepytus: son of merope_3, killed polyphontes_1
europa: taken by zeus in the form of a bull
cadmus: son od agenor_3 and telephassa, sent to find his sister europa, king of thebes and later the illyrians
cilix: son od agenor_3 and telephassa, sent to find his sister europa
minos: son of europa, king of crete
thasus: son of cilix
miletus: founder of miletos, beloved of sarpedon_2 and minos
aria: daughter of cleochus
atymnius: son of zeus and cassiepea_2
crete: daughter of asterius_3
catreus: son of minos
acalle: daughter of minos
xenodice: daughter of minos
ariadne: daughter of minos
phaedra: daughter of minos
euxanthius: son of minos and dexithea
asterius/minotaur:daughter of pasiphae and poseidon's bull, kept in a labyrinth
aerope: daughter of catreus
apemosyne: daughter of catreus
althaemenes: son of catreus, fortold that he would kill his father, sailed to rhodes to avoid doing so
agamemnon: king of mycenae, lead the trojan war
menelaus: married helen, combattant in the trojan war
molus: illegitimate son of deucalion_2
udaeus: one of the sparti
pelorus: one of the sparti
harmonia: daughter of ares and aphrodite, married cadmus
ino: daughter of cadmus, married athamas
semele/thyone: seduced by zeus, then killed by seeing zeus in his true form, mother of dionysus
dionysus: god of wine
actaeon: brought up by cheiron, killed by his own dogs on mt. chithairon
pentheus: king of thebes after cadmus, ended the rituals of dionysis, killed by the bacchae
illyrius: son of cadmus
nycteis: daughter of nicteus_1, married polydorus_1
labdacus: killed by the bacchae
laius: son of labdacus
zethus: killed lycus_4 for imprisoning his mother
amphion: killed lycus_4 for imprisoning his mother
sipylus: son of amphion and niobe
eupinytus: son of amphion and niobe
damasichthon: son of amphion and niobe
phaedimus: son of amphion and niobe
ethodaia/neaera: daughter of amphion and niobe
cleodoxa: daughter of amphion and niobe
astycratia: daughter of amphion and niobe
ogygia: daughter of amphion and niobe
jocasta/epicasta: married laius and her son oedipus
oedipus: killed his father and married his mother and became king of thebes
polyphontes: herald of king laius, killed by oedipus
damasistratus: king pf platea
sphinx: son of typhon and echidna, sent by hera to torment thebes
haemon: offered the thebes and epicasta to the person who could solve the sphinx' riddle
polynices: one of the seven against thebes
eteocles: son of oedipus, refused to give up the throne of thebes to his brother
eurygania: daughter od hyperphas
capaneus: one of the seven against thebes
hippomedon: one of the seven against thebes
eteoclus: one of the seven against thebes
maeon: the only one of 50 not killed by tydeus
tiresias: a theban deviner
leades: killed eteocles
amphidicus: killed parthenopaeus_2
baton/elato: charioteer for amphiaraus
arion: a horse saved his rider adrastus
alcmaeon: part of the second expedition against thebes
thersander: part of the second expedition against thebes
laodamas: king of thebes after eteocles
manto: sent to delphi as tribute to apollo for the victorious second expedition against thebes
phegeus: purrified alcmaeon and psophis
amphoterus: son of alcmaeon
melaeneus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
thesprotus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
helix: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
nyctimus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
peucetius: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
caucon: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
macareus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
macednus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
horus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
polichus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
acontes: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
ancyor: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
archebates: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
carteron: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
aegaeon: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
eumon: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
canethus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
coretho: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
maenalus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
teleboas: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
physius: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
phassus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
phthius: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
lycius: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
halipherus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
genetor: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
socleus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
eumetes: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
harpaleus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
plato: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
haemo: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
cynaethus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
leo: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
harpalycus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
heraeeus: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
titanas: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
clitor: son of lycaon, killed by zeus for impety
callisto: daughter of lycaon, killed by artemis ad hera's bidding
arcas: son of callisto and zeus
aphidas: son of arcas
leanira: married arcas
meganira: daugter of crocon
pereus: son of elatus_2
aleus: son aphidas
epochus: son of lycurgus
melanion: married atalanta
antimache: married eurystheus
rhoecus: a centaur who tried to rape atalanta
hylaeus: a centaur who tried to rape atalanta
pleione: daughter of ocean
taygete: daughter of atlas and pleione
aethusa: daughter of poseidon and alcyone_2
eleuther: son of apollo and aethusa
hyrieus: son of poseidon and alcyone_2
zethus: Son of zeuse and antiope_2
hermes: Messenger of the gods
lelex: born of earth
eurotas: son of lelex
sparta: daughter of eurotas
cynortes: son of amyclas_2 and diomede_2
arene: daughter of oebalus
pisus: son of aphareus and arene
hilaira: carried off by the dioscuri
aesculapius: god of medicine and healing
coronis: daughter of phlegyas_2
ischys: husband of coronis
oebalus: son of perieres_2
dorycleus: son of hippocoon_2
scaeus: son of hippocoon_2
enarophorus: son of hippocoon_2
eutiches: son of hippocoon_2
tebrus: son of hippocoon_2
hippocorystes: son of hippocoon_2
alcinus: son of hippocoon_2
alcon: son of hippocoon_2
damasippus: son of icarius and the naiad periboea
imeusimus: son of icarius and the naiad periboea
aletes: son of icarius and the naiad periboea
perileos: son of icarius and the naiad periboea
penelope: married ulysses
timandra: married echemus
clytaemnestra: married agamemnon
phylonoe: made immortal by artemis
helen: of troy
ulysses: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
thalpius: suitor of helen
meges: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
menestheus: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
elephenor: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
leonteus: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
podalirius: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
machaon: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
philoctetes: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
protesilaus: suitor of helen, combattant at troy
hermione: daughter of menelaus and helen
nicostratus: son of menelaus and helen
xenodamus: son of menelaus and a nymph
mnesileus: son of pullux and phoebe_2
anogon: son of anagon and hilaira
iasion: fell in love with demeter and was struck by lightning
batia: married dardanus_1
tros: named troy after himself
assaracus: son of tros and callirrhoe
ganymede: cupbearer to the gods
hieromneme:married assaracus
capys: son of assaracas and hieromnene
themiste: married ilus_2
anchises: son of capys and themeste
aeneas: fled from troy to italy and founded rome
lyrus: son of anchises
strymo: married laomedon_1
placia: daughter of otreus
hicetaon: son of laomedon
cilla: son of laomedon
memnon: combattant at troy
arisbe: married priam of troy
aesacus: turned into a bird when his wife asterope died
asterope: married aesacus
hecuba: married priam of troy
hector: trojan captain
paris/alexander: asked by hera, athena and aphrodite to judge who was the most beautiful
polyxena: daughter of priam and hecuba
cassandra: given prophecy but apollo but cursed so that nobody would believe her
pammon: son of priam and hecuba
polites: son of priam and hecuba
troilus: son of apollo and hecuba
gorgythion: son of priam
philaemon: son of priam
agathon: son of priam
atas: son of priam
doryclus: son of priam
dryops: son of priam
astygonus: son of priam
telestas: son of priam
evander: son of priam
cebriones: son of priam
mylius: son of priam
democoon: son of priam
deiopites: son of priam
clonius: son of priam
echemmon: son of priam
hypirochus: son of priam
aegeoneus: son of priam
lysithous: son of priam
polymedon: son of priam
aristodeme: son of priam
andromache: married hector
oenone: married paris
asopus: a river
pelagon: son of asopus and metope_1
aeacus: son of zeus and aegina
endeis: married aeacus
phocus: son of aeacus and pseamanthe
salamis: daughter of asopus
alcathus: son fo pelops
borus: son of perieres_3
menesthius: son of sperchius and polydora_2
achilles: greek captain at troy, invincible save for his ankle
deidamia: daughter of lycomedes_2
neoptolemus/pyrrhus: combattant at troy
periopis: daughter of pheres_3
polymele: daughter of peleus
clitonymus: killed by patroclus
erysichthon: son of cecrops_1 and agralaus_1
pandrosus:daughter of cecrops_1 and agralaus_1
halirrhothius: tried to rape alcippe_1, killed by ares for it
phaeton: son of tithonus_2
astynous: son of phaeton
sandocus: son of astynous
pharnace: daughter of megassares
metharme: married cinyras_2
oxyporus: son fo cinyras_2 and metharme
adonis: shared by persephone and aphrodite, killed by a boar due to artemis' anger
orsedice: victim of aphrodite's wrath
laogore: victim of aphrodite's wrath
braesia: victim of aphrodite's wrath
thias: king of assyria
smyrna: through aphrodite's wrath developed lust for her father, whe he found our she prayed to be turned into a tree that eventually burst produced adonis
cranaus: kind of athens
pedias: married cranaus
cranae: daughter of cranaus and pedias
menaechme: daughter of cranaus and pedias
atthis: cranaus named attica after her death
zeuxippe: married pandion_2
procne: married tereus
philomela: married tereus
erechtheus: king of athens
tereus:turned into a bird after his wives prayed to be turned into birds
itys: son of tereus and procne
diogenia:daughter of cephisus
pandorus: son of erechtheus and praxithea_3
chthonia: daughter of erechtheus and praxithea_3
orithyia: carried of by boreas
chione: daughter of orithyia and boreas
plexippus: son of phineus_1 and cleopatra_5
idaea: married phineus_1
benthesicyme: foster mother of eumolpus_2
tegyrius: king of thrace
metiadusa: marred cecrops_2
pylia: married pandion_4
aegeus: expelled the sons of metion from athens
nisus: expelled the sons of metion from athens
meta: married aegeus
pittheus: son of pelops
aethra: daughter of pittheus
megareus: killed by minos when he attacked athens
antheis: daughter of hyacinth_3 slaughtered to save athens from famine
aegleis: daughter of hyacinth_3 slaughtered to save athens from famine
lytaea: daughter of hyacinth_3 slaughtered to save athens from famine
orthaea: daughter of hyacinth_3 slaughtered to save athens from famine
daedalus: engineered the minotaur's labyrinth
perdix: sister of daedalus
periphetes: killed by theseus on the road to athens
sinis: killed by theseus on the road to athens
sylea: daughter of corintus
phaea: a sow born of typhon and echidna killed by theseus
cercyon: killed by theseus in eleusis
damastes/polypemon: killed by theseus
oenopion: son of dionysus and ariadne
peparethus: son of dionysus and ariadne
cocalus: king of sicily
centaurus: son of ixion and a cloud in the shape of hera
broteas: a hunter who dishonoured artemis, went mad and threw himself on a fire
pelops: boiled at a banquet for the gods and returned to life, later married hippodamia_3
myrtilus: helped pelops gain the hand of hippodamia_3
aglaus: slaughtered by atreus
callileon: slaughtered by atreus
aegisthus: killed atreus and restored his father thyestes as king
tantalus: killed by agamemnon for his wife clytemnestra
chrysothemis: daughter of agamemnon and clytemnestra
iphigenia: daughter of agamemnon and clytemnestra
telemachus: son of ulysses and penelope
anius: son of apollo
elais: one of the wine-growers, given the power to draw oil, corn and wine from the earth by dionysus
spermo: one of the wine-growers, given the power to draw oil, corn and wine from the earth by dionysus
oeno: one of the wine-growers, given the power to draw oil, corn and wine from the earth by dionysus
phidippus: combattant at troy
talthybius: combattant at troy, agamemnon's servant
tenes: king of tenedos
proclia: mother of tenes
philonome: married cycnus_4
hemithea: daughter of cycnus_4 and proclia
archelochus: combattant at troy
theanus: combattant at troy, leader of the dardanians
pyraechmes: combattant at troy, leader of the paphlagonians
pandarus: combattant at troy
amphius: combattant at troy
asius: combattant at troy
ennomus: combattant at troy
odius: combattant at troy
phorcys: combattant at troy
mesthles: combattant at troy
nastes: combattant at troy
briseis: combattant at troy
dolon: combattant at troy
euphorbus: combattant at troy
asteropaeus: combattant at troy
pelegon: combattant at troy
epeus: combattant at troy, built the trojan horse
penthesilia: combattant at troy
calchas: combattant at troy
sinon: combattant at troy
laocoon: combattant at troy
anticlus: combattant at troy
mopsus: challenged calchas to a contest of divination
cometes: had an affair with aegialia
leucus: had an affair with meda, became a tyrant of
meda: married to idomeneus_1
clisithyra: killed by leucus in a temple
molossus: son of neoptolemus and andromache
machaereus: killed orestes for plundering a temple of apollo
polyanax: previous king of melos
aethylla: daughter of laomedon_1
phyllis: daughter of the king of the bisaltians
strophius: foster father of orestes
pylades: son of strophius
maro: priest of apollo
polyphemus: the cyclops that imprisoned ulysses
antiphates: king of the laestrygones
elpenor: died from a fall in circe's house
pisinoe: the siren
aglaope: the siren
thelxiepia: the siren
latinus: son of ulysses and calypso_2
nausicaa: daughter of king alcinous
amphinomus: suitor of penelope
demoptolemus: suitor of penelope
paralus: suitor of penelope
thersilochus: suitor of penelope
hagius: suitor of penelope
philodemus: suitor of penelope
meneptolemus: suitor of penelope
damastor: suitor of penelope
telmius: suitor of penelope
astylochus: suitor of penelope
antigonus: suitor of penelope
marpsius: suitor of penelope
iphidamas: suitor of penelope
calydoneus: suitor of penelope
lamas: suitor of penelope
agerochus: suitor of penelope
medon: suitor of penelope
promus: suitor of penelope
ctesius: suitor of penelope
pseras: suitor of penelope
hellanicus: suitor of penelope
periphron: suitor of penelope
megasthenes: suitor of penelope
ormenius: suitor of penelope
diopithes: suitor of penelope
ptolemaeus: suitor of penelope
lestorides suitor of penelope:
nicomachus suitor of penelope:
ceraus: suitor of penelope
pisander: suitor of penelope
hippodochus: suitor of penelope
eurystratus: suitor of penelope
archemolus: suitor of penelope
ithacus: suitor of penelope
pisenor: suitor of penelope
pheroetes: suitor of penelope
antisthenes: suitor of penelope
cynnus: suitor of penelope
thriasus: suitor of penelope
eteoneus: suitor of penelope
itanus: suitor of penelope
lyammus: suitor of penelope
laomedes: suitor of penelope
molebus: suitor of penelope
linis: suitor of penelope
liocritus: suitor of penelope
pronomus: suitor of penelope
nisas: suitor of penelope
daemon: suitor of penelope
archestratus: suitor of penelope
hippomachus: suitor of penelope
periallus: suitor of penelope
thadytius: suitor of penelope
stratius: suitor of penelope
daesenor: suitor of penelope
laodicus: suitor of penelope
halius: suitor of penelope
oloetrochus: suitor of penelope
barthas: suitor of penelope
theophron: suitor of penelope
nissaeus: suitor of penelope
alcarops: suitor of penelope
pellas: suitor of penelope
celtus: suitor of penelope
periphus: suitor of penelope
ormenus: suitor of penelope
andromedes: suitor of penelope
antinous: suitor of penelope
liodes: suitor of penelope
eurynomus: suitor of penelope
amphialus: suitor of penelope
amphimedon: suitor of penelope
aristratus: suitor of penelope
dulicheus: suitor of penelope
eumaeus: servant to ulysses
melanthius: a goatherd, killed by ulysses
irus: wrestled with ulysses
philoetius: helped ulysses kill the suitors of penelope
poliporthes: son of ulysses and penelope
leontophonus: son of ulysses
pontus: the old man of the sea

I was wondering about xml:id='corinth' and xml:id='ephyra'. In Apollodorus 1.9.3 'event_152' (Sisyphus founds Corinth) occurs. However, in the text it says:

"And Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, founded Ephyra, which is now called Corinth".

The places' descriptions and geographical locations are different. Their latitude and longitude are different, but aren't they the same place?
Also in citations; 'ephyra' is only cited at Apollodorus 2.7.6, when it clearly is mentioned at Apollodorus 1.9.3 as being founded by 'sisyphus'.
I looked up 'ephyra' in the whole text and it does get mentioned again separately, as does 'corinth'; so what must be done?

-- Hi Fj

It seems to me Ephyra in 1.9.3 is listed as the older name for Corinth, but in 2.7.6 a different Ephyra is mentioned. Check Ephyra on wikipedia, it correlates with 2.7.6 which is about Hercules going there. What I did was add an AKA to Corinth (aka Ephyra) and the existing Ephyra I updated its coordinates to the approximate location (just across Corfu and to the south). There was also an existing placename for "ephrya" with an AKA Kichyro like it says on wikipedia, which had incorrect coordinates so I deleted this entry. Both entries in apollodorus xml are tagged properly as well.

There are 3 entries for Argus in the characters xml file, the first argus_1 is the builder of the Argo. The other two are giving me some confusion, particularly in Apollod. 2.1.3 when referring to argus_3 “Panoptes (all seeing)” who was tasked to guard the cow Io “…and Cercops says that he [argus_3] was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus". The best way I can try and explain this is with a small genealogy of argus_2 and argus_3 because it is hard to tell going from Apollod 2.1.1-3 which one exactly is which.

I attached my notes for sake of ease which contain genealogies.

So in summary I am confused and I believe Argus_2 as ruler of Peloponnese is the spouse of Evadne, but the Argus referred to as the possible father of Argus_3 along with Ismene_1 is a totally different Argus (a new #4) that may confusingly be just added in with the rest in these sections but would like clarification please!!

I was reading Apollodorus book 1 and at 1.7.4 I came across the character Alcyone (xml:id='alcyone_3'); she is one of the five daughters of Aeolus (xml:id='aeolus_1') and Enarete (xml:id='enarete'). I was checking her character and I noticed that it wasn't specified that aeolus_1 was her father, so I went to her xml:id and put it in. I then checked that all the children have aeolus_1 listed as their father in their character descriptions too.

However, while checking this I noticed that all the siblings have Alycone (xml:id='alycone') listed as their sister instead of Alcyone (xml:id='alcyone_3'). I went to that xml:id='alycone' and it's listed that aeolus_1 is her father. But for 'aeolus_1 it's 'alcyone_3' listed as his daughter; rightfully so.
Also, most of the children like in Sisyphus's (xml:id='sisyphus') character.xml have both 'alcyone_3' and 'alycone' listed as their sisters

So my question is; do we get rid of xml:id='alycone' and then make sure xml:id='alcyone' is listed as the right sibling?

** Thanks for finding this, it was clearly a typo as "alycone" is found nowhere in the text. The rest of the genealogy should work out... I deleted all the typos and made sure the markups reflected the correct spelling --Matt

While working on Apollodorus I was looking at the events of Tartarus. It shows that there are 5 events linked to it. The event that stood out to me was xml:id="event_7" (unspecified Titans shut up in Tartarus), because while reading further there was another event xml:id="event_15" (Titans imprisoned by the gods, guarded by the hundred-handers) and then I wondered if it was the same event or not.

Looking at the description of these events I found that "event_7" is cited as apollodorus-library_1.1.5; however reading it in context it seems the group shut up in Tartarus is the Cyclopes, who had been freed to aid Cronus and the Titans defeat their father, Sky. Then after Sky's defeat Cronus "again bound and shut them up in Tartarus".

"event_15" is cited as apollodorus-library_1.2.1, and in reading the text this is the first mention of the Titans being cast down to Tartarus.

My question is: is it possible that "event_7" is actually "Cyclopes cast down to Tartarus again" and not "Unspecified Titans shut up in Tartarus"?

** Hi Fj, I looked at these events and deduce that event_7 should be "Cyclopes cast down to Tartarus again", the person who originally entered the event must have read out of context "they" as being the Titans, but it is clear that it refers to "the brethren" in the previous sentence who are the Cyclopes. It has been changed to your description in the events.xml file. I have also added Arges, Brontes, and Steropes to the event from only Cronus. --Matthew

I've deployed the app to pear and all seems to be well.
Today I made a bunch of changes to the way character info gets generated and I had to make a few hundred changes to various xml files. I also began work on the map itself.
I've come to the conclusion that I need to completely rewrite the places.xql helper script as it's too reader-specific. I need to rewrite some of the xquery as functions. Once that is done I anticipate very rapid progress on completing the map features such that they duplicate the original map.
After that I can start working on journeys and a generic data browser which allows users to literally browse the data we've generated (places, characters, groups and events).

Take this paragraph:

<p>Some text in a paragraph
<note>blah blah note blah blah</note>
about something important.
</p>

and a lucene index which includes:

<ignore qname="tei:note"/>

My assumption was that, when using kwic, I would not get back any text inside of the note tag because I had excluded notes from my index but this is not the case. Searches using kwic consistently returned text from inside of the note element. As far as I can tell this is because kwic:expand expands the entire root node (in this case <p>), which includes the <note> THEN turns it in to plain text.

The result I was looking for was:
"..paragraph about something important"
but what I got was:
"...note blah blah something important"

Fortunately, KWIC is written in XQuery, so I re-created kwic and edited the get-context, truncate-previous and truncate-following functions to ignore notes using [not(ancestor::tei:note)]

I'm now using my GKWIC module to only print text nodes that are *not* ancestors of a tei:note element.

In order to extend the application I propose to add STOA links to all place names in the places.xml file. This will add value to what we already offer by providing easy access to the extra resources of STOA. Here's an example:

We have sparse information on any given place - e.g. Athens. For Athens we have a name and the geolocation co-ordinates, whereas STOA has this: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885/?searchterm=athenae

If we add this: <placeName key="579885">Athens</placeName> to our athens entry we can add hooks to STOA data (or just links to the right STOA page) to our application.

We can extend this concept to include offsite links to other resources. For example, we can provide links to a document chunk in the Perseus site by providing an attribute that contains the Perseus chunk locator. If we want to link to the Perseus rendering of Apollodorus Library, book 1, chapter 1, section 4 we would provide this link:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=1:chapter=1:section=4
The only non-obvious part is the document ID (19901.022), but I've added that information in to each text in our db as part of sourcedesc, thusly:
<idno type="perseus">1999.01.0022</idno>
so we can dynamically create a URL for connecting to a specific chunk in the Perseus site.

Apollo Epitome 1.6.15 -- updated "Sangarius" from character to place, and updated to "Sangarius River" in places.xml. The Sangarius River is the same as the Sakarya River, which lists coordinates as slightly different from those currently in the xml file. Sakarya coordinates (according to wiki) are 41.1264 by 30.6489. Currently in the xml file coordinates are 40.6327144965506 by 30.7067871093750.

I made this change, thanks for clarifying. Usually with rivers I find the coords are best placed at the terminus and the previous coords were somewhere along the flow it seems. The wiki coords are good. - Matt

In Apollo Epitome 1.3.25 should the island of Leuchophrys be added as an aka to Tenedos in the places xml file??

Added Leucophrys as an AKA for Tenedos - Matt

In Apollo Epitome I've linked Agapenor (1.3.12) to agapenor_2, listed as a suitor of Helen; and Eurypylus (1.3.14) to eurypylus_7, and Antenor (1.3.29) to antenor_2, both listed as suitors of Penelope. Let me know if that is incorrect.

This is correct, I added these descriptions "Suitor of Helen" based on Simon's work (disambiguating the character_xx's). - Matt

Is it worth creating a group "Demigods"? I'm sure I've only found partial listings online, so would the group be too large to be manageable?

I spoke with Greg about this and the best way to do this would be to start going through characters.xml and adding a tag "god" to appropriate characters. He could then use the relationships to determine all the demigods without having to go through all the demigods mechanically. We could start doing this in a way similar to the STOA ID's for places.xml, heuristically and as you come across them feel free to add. (I have been doing this for AKA's for all places and characters I come across as it cuts down time spent searching for which character is the right one for this event or that group etc.) - Matt

Should the Marathoninan bull mentioned at 1.1.5 in Apollo Epitome be added as a character? It is the same as the Cretan bull, who is noted as the father of the Minotaur but not a character in the xml file.

I added Cretan Bull (xml id is "cretanBull") and an AKA, Marathonian Bull to the characters.xml file. I am fairly certain this was a character and it vanished but regardless I added it to characters and marked it up in apollodorus.xml and in events.xml anytime "Cretan" or "Marathonian" bull came up. - Matt