The second-century CE narrative, the Periegesis Hellados by Pausanias, represents a unique first-hand account from antiquity of the built environment of the ancient Greek mainland. Structuring his narrative in the form of a journey from Athens to Delphi via a clock-wise journey around the Peloponnese, Pausanias takes his reader on a deep dive into some of Greece’s primary cultural sites (Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia, Thebes, Delphi, etc.), describing the sights worth seeing and relating accounts about them (1.39.3). In this way, Pausanias challenges modern ways of viewing by relating places and objects as much through the stories that bind them as by their topographical proximity.
The Digital Periegesis represents the first concerted effort to capture this information in a systematic and consistent manner, and publish the results for general use according to Linked Open Data FAIR principles. On this website you will find:
The Digital Periegesis project is supported by the Swedish Research Council (2023-2026). It has previously also received funding from The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (2016-2020). Hosted by the department of ALM at the University of Uppsala, it is a collaboration between the Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in Uppsala, the Swedish Institute in Athens, and The Open University in the UK.
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