A USER-CENTRED DESIGN TO ANNOTATE RITUAL FACTS IN ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDIES

• DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12041.x
• Publication Date: 2016-12-27T06:23:06Z
• Authors: GLORIA MUGELLI; FEDERICO BOSCHETTI; RICCARDO DEL GRATTA; ANGELO MARIO DEL ...; FAHAD KHAN; ANDREA TADDEI
• Keywords: Digital Humanities; Computational Linguistics; Digital Classicist; Digital Philology; Computational philology; Letteratura greca, Tragedia, Filologia digitale

Abstract Euporia is an annotation system developed with a user-centred approach for the study of ritual and religion in ancient Greek tragedy. Euporia adopts a domain specific language (DSL) and a lightweight web user interface in order to offer digital support to an anthropological study of ancient Greek tragedy that compares ritual as it is performed or described in Greek tragedy with ancient ritual as it can be reconstructed from literary, archaeological, and epigraphic sources. The case study discussed in this paper (Aesch. Ag. 67–71) shows one of the main features of Euporia: the ability to annotate different readings and different interpretations of the text and their consequences in the reconstruction of ancient Greek ritual.