Myths on Maps

I added the Danube (aka Ister) from where the placeography left off to the Red Sea. Questions: The beginning part loops back on itself. Unable to fix this in Mercator vertex. I believe 'Ister' is the ancient name and that Danube is more modern. Should I change to the ancient name as per Herodotus?

Continued through Pausanias 3.9 adding people to his account of the war between Agisilaus and Artaxerxes. Added TISS1 - Tissaphernes, PEIS15 - Peisander (the spartan general) and TITH4 -Tithraustes. Next time will be confirming tags with Greg and continuing.

Worked on the Spartan king lineage from Archidamus, to Agis II and Agesilaus. Sections 3.8.1 to 3.9.3. Here is a picture of the lineage mind map for this section.

Deliberating what to do with the many rivers in Scythia. Currently I'm just listing them down until I decide if I want to just do the source and end or if I want to mark them out more carefully. To be referred to Greg Newton and Laurel Bowman. It seems that Atlas might also be on a mountain.

I've found that many of the places on my list are rivers and I've been contemplating the best way to map them. Initially I was simply marking the best location for the river head. I'm unsure if my work has been committing.

Today I practised what Greg Newton taught me last week to find names and places in the text using grep. This week I have been adding places to the PLAC1. I also constructed a cheat sheet for myself which can be shared with future workstudy students if they desire.

Today Greg Newton showed me some XSLT to compare Herodotus 4 with the Place list. I also added my first place, the racecourse of Achilles (RACE1) My next work session will be continuing with the comparison

Found a good site for Pausanias (maybe others).

Greg and I will continue to search for the proper titles for each Pausanias Chapter. Currently on about 60 titles have been put into place. Their origin is unknown, though they do align with the material. I worked on PAUS 3.7 working on getting comfortable with the XML again. It has come back quickly and I have been adding new people and organizations as Pausanias comes to the end of kings in Sparta.

Note: Convention is LatLong. I'm constructing a list of places that need to be added to the MoM database. Once I finish places I will move on to people. Today went slower because of set up. Next day I'm hoping will go significantly faster. Compared the following places against the database: Argos Bodrum Red Sea Persian Gulf Greece Egypt Tyre Phoenicia Poti Troy Halys River Syria Paphlagonia Black Sea Ionia Sardis Lydia