ALyrA: Archaic Lyric Agora

Period covered	799 – 430 BCE
Resource type	Open dataset
Modelled as	Ontoterminology
Languages	English, Ancient Greek (to 1453), Modern Greek (1453–)
Built with	Tedi ontoTerminology Editor, see TEDI documentation
Keywords	Linked Open Data; Ancient Lyric Poetry; Classical Philology; Classics
Subjects	Ontology; Semantic Web
Published	25 August 2024

Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Ancient-Lyric-Poetry-ALyrA-v1

Ways in

• SPARQL endpoint: browser interface, no setup
• OTV Ontology Viewer: browse the class hierarchy
• RDF Graph Viewer: explore as a network
• Download the RDF/OWL and .otb files

The .otb file opens in TEDI; the .rdf file opens in Protégé, and can be visualised with WebVOWL.

Files deposited on Zenodo

The record contains 18 files: the TEDI and RDF/OWL source files, plus English and Greek HTML dictionaries for all entries, composers, locations, poems and terms.

• ALyrA_v.1.0.otb594.2 kB
• ALyrA_v.1.0.rdf.rdf503.3 kB
• Alyra_PN_all.en.html428.0 kB
• Alyra_PN_all.el.html405.4 kB
• Alyra_PN_composer.en.html272.8 kB
• Alyra_PN_composer.el.html232.9 kB
• Alyra_PN_location.en.html71.0 kB
• Alyra_PN_location.el.html75.2 kB
• Alyra_PN_poem.en.html98.2 kB
• Alyra_PN_poem.el.html110.6 kB
• Alyra_terms_all.en.html131.0 kB
• Alyra_terms_all.el.html135.0 kB
• Alyra_terms_composer.en.html58.4 kB
• Alyra_terms_composer.el.html58.8 kB
• Alyra_terms_location.en.html34.8 kB
• Alyra_terms_location.el.html35.0 kB
• Alyra_terms_poem.en.html53.8 kB
• Alyra_terms_poem.el.html57.2 kB

1. Which are the different Archaic Lyric poems and what differentiates each of them?
2. What is a hymn, and which Archaic Lyric poets or poetesses composed hymns?
3. Who was Pindar?
4. What is the four-digit Thesaurus Linguae Graecae identifying number of each Archaic Lyric composer?
5. Which place produced the most Ancient Greek lyric composers, and who were they?

Query 3: Who was Pindar?

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX alyra: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/ALyrA_v.1.0#>
SELECT ?propertyName ?value
FROM <http://ontologia.fr/OTB/ALyrA_v.1.0.rdf>
WHERE {
  alyra:pindarus_boeotus ?x ?y .
  ?x rdfs:label ?propertyName .
  ?y rdfs:label ?value .
  FILTER(LANG(?value) = 'en')
}
ORDER BY ?value

All five complete SPARQL queries are published in the Zenodo record.

TEDI

Concepts	29
Objects	101
Terms	58
Proper names	247

RDF / Protégé

Axioms	4,782
Logical axioms	2,348
Declaration axioms	177
Classes	43
Object properties	21
Data properties	6
Individuals	610
Annotation properties	36
SubClassOf axioms	81
Disjoint classes	53
Object property domains	20
Object property ranges	20
Data property domains	6
Data property ranges	6
Class assertions	798
Object property assertions	1,291
Data property assertions	73
Annotation assertions	2,235
Annotation property domains	12
Annotation property ranges	10

Cite as

Giannadakis, R., & Papadopoulou, M. (2024).
Archaic Lyric Agora (ALyrA) - Ontoterminology of Archaic Lyric Poets - 
version 1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13371967

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13371967

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: the material may be copied and shared unchanged for non-commercial purposes with attribution. Adaptations may not be distributed.

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.