Myths on Maps

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>