ToposText in running for Digital Humanities Award

ToposText, a digital application presenting a comprehensive bibliography of ancient texts on the Hellenic world, has been nominated for a prestigious Digital Humanities Award.

Recently launched by the Aikaterini Laskarides Foundation, the ToposText app is an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks from the Neolithic period up through the 2nd century. It includes references to ancient cities, medieval towers and castles, modern museums and excavation sites.

Hailed as a "tool for making ancient Greek literature more accessible to scholars, students, Philhellenes, and travelers," the ToposText database of texts and places was designed and assembled by Brady Kiesling, senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies, and implemented as an application by Athens-based software company...