Myths on Maps

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