Sharing Ancient Wisdoms

The aim of the project was to explore the use of digital tools to examine, and to represent, shared ideas/concepts/axioms/apophthegms in various cultures: we chose to examine the Byzantine Greek and medieval Arabic worlds, looking at the transmission of such materials, largely drawn from the Classical Greek world.

The ontology was developed from our experience, principally by Anna Jordanous. Each literary researcher worked on the manuscripts of their various texts, to produce digital editions. The technical team worked to use the ontology in order to represent the connections between those texts, and to build a structure for represting the texts (the Dynamic Library).