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Ontoterminology · version 1.0

Ontoterminology of Hellenistic Events

Events, agents and primary sources from the Hellenistic world, modelled as linked data.

Marble relief associated with the Battle of Actium
Actium relief · Image linked through foaf:depiction in the RDF dataset

Select an event to connect its chronology, location, agents, primary sources and documented image.

Image timeline

Images and relationships are read from the foaf:depiction links and event records in the deposited RDF file.

Interactive event map

    Six events are mapped. The Wars of the Successors span multiple theatres and therefore have no single pin.

    Dataset Info
    94Concepts
    662Objects
    2,809Individuals
    21,504Axioms

    Overview

    The dataset models major events of the Hellenistic world from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, together with the people and groups who shaped them.

    Events and agents are connected to primary sources and the ancient writers who recorded them, allowing researchers to examine both what happened and the evidence through which it is known.

    Scope
    Period covered323 – 31 BCE
    RegionHellenistic Mediterranean
    Modelled asOntoterminology
    LanguagesEnglish, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek
    Built withTedi ontoTerminology Editor. see TEDI documentation
    SourcesAncient historiographers and primary sources connected to modelled events
    Access the data

    Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

    https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Modeling-Events-Hellenistic-Period-v1

    Ways in

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

    Example queries

    Who were the agents of the Wars of the Successors?

    Returns the definition of war together with everyone recorded as an agent of the Wars of the Successors.

    PREFIX rdfs:   <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX skos:   <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX events: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/Events-hellenistic-v.1.0#>
SELECT DISTINCT ?definition ?agentLabel
FROM <https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Modeling-Events-Hellenistic-Period-v1>
WHERE {
  ?warURI rdfs:label "war"@en ;
          skos:definition ?definition .
  FILTER(langMatches(lang(?definition), "en"))
  ?war rdfs:label "wars of the succesors"@en ;
       events:hasAgent ?agent .
  ?agent rdfs:label ?agentLabel .
}
ORDER BY ?agentLabel

    The query combines a general concept definition with the agents of one documented historical event. Change the event label to investigate another event in the same graph.

    Size & structure
    Concepts94
    Terms188
    Proper names1,322
    Objects662
    Axioms21,504
    Classes108
    Individuals2,809
    Object properties56
    Data properties18
    Citation & licence

    Cite as

    Lourentzaki, A., Papadopoulou, M., & Roche, C. (2024). 
Ontoterminology of Hellenistic Events v.1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13371204

    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13371204

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

    Funding

    European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

    Credits

    Antonia LourentzakiData curator
    ORCID 0009-0004-9982-8349
    Maria PapadopoulouSupervisor
    ORCID 0000-0001-6451-8712
    Christophe RocheSupervisor
    ORCID 0000-0002-0756-0559

    Department of History and Archaeology and Department of Philology, University of Crete

    Image sources & licences

    Images are resized for display; some views use CSS cropping. Original files and pre-existing edits are documented at the source links.