Myths on Maps

Zaquir, we fixed up the Pallas Athena issue you were talking about. Because of content I explained to Greg why it's actually better to refer to the character as "pallas athena" and not "pallas" "athena" since it is only Athena that is being talked about. I've added this explanation to her description, but she took on the name Pallas after regretfully killing Pallas (pallas_4). The code in between the entries was acting as a way of including a space between two tagged elements. It only has to be used when there is nothing but a white space between the two (for example, commas and periods and such mean you don't need to add it). But in this section, it was added because between the two entries of "pallas" and "athena" there was nothing but a space. But since I've taken them out and it's now just one entry "pallas athena" there is no need for the space or the code. So if you come across it again that's why it's there. Sorry if this is confusing, if you need Greg or I to explain please let us know! Also I have changed everything in the Iliad to reflect the new "pallas athena" so unless I've missed any it should be all sorted out, just wanted to explain what we did.

Jenn, I don't see why we can't make another group for them, as long as we only list the ones mentioned in the sources we've considered (As in if outside research tells you there are other Niobids or whatnot don't worry, just list the ones we have been given by Apollodorus, or Homer, though I don't believe they are mentioned in the Iliad) If you want to send me a couple of known places they are mentioned (or if they list who is in the group) I can make up a group for them or if you'd like to I'd say go for it

This is for the question regarding adding the Boar to the participant list, I would think we should leave it out, since the boar wasn't necessarily involved in his own hunting. This is just my opinion though, if someone wishes to argue otherwise feel free!

In Apol. Epitome we have sections like epit. 1.6.15a, which is comprised of a cit/quote. I can't tell if it should be included in our text or not... Right now it isn't because it seemed out of place. That said, it wasn't inside a note, so I didn't remove it.

In book 5 and elsewhere, the name "Pallas" has been coded alongside the entity &#160

The Pallas tags in book 5 are void, in that Pallas Athena is just Athena, rather than Pallas the Nymph and Athena the Goddess. When I remove these incongruities, do I also delete the entity &#160? If it serves a purpose outside of information retrieval for Pallas the Nymph, I wouldn't want to ruin it.

Finished tagging and events for book 4 of the Iliad and proceeding on to book 5. If anyone is up for it, I feel that book 4 is ready to be checked over (just be sure to load in my recent edits, the version that's up on the site now is out of date) Cheers

In Iliad 4.517, "Ainos" is tagged as corresp="places.xml#αἶνος αἶνος makes this a dead link, as there is nothing in the places.xml with this name. This may have been a place that existed in the document in the past, that has since been removed. Or, more likely, this is the Greek that should have been tucked away, and somehow came to replace the proper pointer. In any case, I've changed it to corresp="places.xml#aenus I posted this to the blog simply for documentation, so that if/when it is needed, the Greek is still extant somewhere.

Looking at the list of characters for this group, the boar itself is not listed, though we do have a character designation for it. Do we want to add the boar to the list of participants?

Currently the children of Niobe are not listed as a group, though potentially they could be. They are only ever mentioned together, though I believe their only significant event would be dying en masse. While Apollodorus never calls them the Niobids, many other sources do; is it worthwhile for us to make this into a group, and if so would it be more pragmatic to refer to them as the children of Niobe or as Niobids?

So Greg and I were talking about how we might combine events for Iliad Book 2 (specifically Homer's Catalogue of Ships, versus Apollodorus' account of the catalogue). It seems that we are going to proceed in a way where the event is given a general description that can encompass both Homer's and Apollodorus' descriptions of the event. By adding both Bibl's to the event, and adding a note to each bibl that gives the event more detail, were hoping to keep it to one event while differentiating between the details given by each author (when a difference is noted). For example, Description for an event is "Boeotians send ships to Troy as allies of the Greeks", and under the Iliad bibl, it has a note (that will be visible) that says "Homer states that the Boeotians send 50 ships to Troy" along with the passage we are referencing, and (in the same event) the bibl for Apollodorus includes a note that says "Apollodorus states that the Boeotians send 40 ships to Troy". It may change as we develop it but for now that is how we are proceeding with event combination