
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies
Oxford University Press Inc
Will be published approx. on 28. November 2026
Book
Hardback
886 pages
978-0-19-783521-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies offers three distinct views: (1) an expansive approach to classical studies, which encompasses sub-disciplines that are usually treated separately, such as archaeology and philology; (2) concise overviews of the various digital tools, methods, and approaches currently in use; and (3) an exploration of their uses in and beyond academia, taking in research, pedagogy and heritage. As well as giving a sense of what is now possible, the handbook places digital technology within a theoretical framework that examines its use critically, advocates for ethical practices in the production and management of data, and considers its impact on the material and digital world.
The handbook is divided into four sections that: sketch out the historiography of the field and articulate the impact that the digital turn has had on classical studies (Section II: Contexts); explore the importance that digitization and data management plays in shaping the field (Section III: Data); provide concise and up-to-date introductions to new digital methods and approaches (Section IV: Methods); and present a selection of case studies that exemplify how these can be used in various sectors as a source of inspiration for readers (Section V: Case Studies).
The handbook is divided into four sections that: sketch out the historiography of the field and articulate the impact that the digital turn has had on classical studies (Section II: Contexts); explore the importance that digitization and data management plays in shaping the field (Section III: Data); provide concise and up-to-date introductions to new digital methods and approaches (Section IV: Methods); and present a selection of case studies that exemplify how these can be used in various sectors as a source of inspiration for readers (Section V: Case Studies).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
31
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-783521-0 (9780197835210)
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Persons
Elton Barker is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at The Open University, and the author of Entering the Agon. Since 2008, he has led digital initiatives for studying the ancient world, from the Hestia project to the Digital Periegesis. In 2011, he founded Pelagios, a humanities linked data initiative, and now serves as Partnership Secretary of the Pelagios Network, a community launched in 2019 to link information online.
Olympia Bobou is Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions and Department of History and Classical Studies.
Rubina Raja is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Her previous publications include Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra and The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.
Olympia Bobou is Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions and Department of History and Classical Studies.
Rubina Raja is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Her previous publications include Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra and The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.
Editor
ProfessorProfessor, The Open University
Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions and School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
ProfessorProfessor, Aarhus University
Content
- Section I. Introduction
- 1: Elton Barker, Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja: Digital Classical Studies: Past Approaches and Future Directions
- Section II. Contexts
- 2: Monica Berti, Gregory R. Crane and Alison Babeu: Philology and Digital Texts
- 3: Katharine Shields: Digital Linguistic Methods and Approaches
- 4: Paul Reilly: Digitalizing Digital Archaeology: Some Implications
- 5: Costis Dallas: Archaeology and Digital Heritage
- 6: J.A. Baird and Rubina Raja: From Dirt to Digital Archives
- 7: Kre?imir Matijevi¿: Digital Epigraphy and Possible Future Developments
- 8: Andrew Meadows, David Wigg-Wolf and Ethan Gruber: Digital Ancient Numismatics: Coins, Linked Open Data and Nomisma
- 9: Sarah E. Bond: Digital Maps and Mapping
- 10: Stuart Dunn: Place
- 11: Jeremy Huggett: Ethics and Digital Archaeology
- 12: Eleni Bozia: Ethics and AI
- 13: Isto Huvila: Datafication of Archaeological Information
- 14: Neha Gupta: Decolonizing Archaeology through Digital Means
- 15: William Michael Carter: Reflexive Futures: AI, Interpretation, and the Making of Virtual Heritage
- Section III. Data
- 16: Isto Huvila: Archiving Archaeology as Data
- 17: Julian D. Richards: Archaeological Data and Digital Archives
- 18: Katharina Meinecke: Digital Approaches to the Study of Greek and Roman Sculpture
- 19: Dario Calomino: New Digital Technologies in the Study of Ancient Coinage
- 20: Catherine Bouras: Digital Gazetteers
- 21: Angelos Barmpoutis and Eleni Bozia: Epigraphy Going Digital: Tools and Methods
- 22: Francesca Dell'Oro: Linguistics and Inscriptions
- 23: Leah Packard-Grams: Digitally Reuniting Papyri and Other Textual Artifacts
- 24: C. Michael Sampson: Integrated Digital Papyrology
- 25: Franz Fischer and Paolo Monella: Digital Philology and Editing Texts
- 26: Francesco Mambrini: Language Resources and Editions
- 27: Charles Pletcher and Matteo Romanello: Commentaries in the Digital Age
- Section IV. Methods
- 28: Steven Dey: Digitizing 3D Heritage and the Opportunities and Limitations of Imaging from 3D Content
- 29: Nicoló Dell'Unto: 3D Digital Replicas and New Archives
- 30: Nicolas Klenert and Daniel Baum: Digital Unfolding of Writing Materials
- 31: Thomas J. Keep: Virtual Reality and Communicating the Past
- 32: Barbara Birley and Claire Stocks: Virtual Gaming and Heritage: Is the Console Mightier than the Trowel?
- 33: Marja Vierros and Polina Yordanova-Nanev: Scaled Linguistic Analysis of Papyri
- 34: Nicoletta Bruno: Lexicography of Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Age
- 35: Patrick J. Burns: Latin Intertext Detection
- 36: Margherita Fantoli: Semantic Annotation: Resources, Tools, and Methods
- 37: William Michael Short: Problems in the Semantic Annotation of Ancient Language Corpora
- 38: Barbara McGillivray: Latin Corpus Linguistics and Big Data
- 39: Thea Sommerschield and Yannis Assael: Machine Learning and Classical Studies
- 40: Chiara Palladino and Tariq Yousef: Training on the Shoulders of Giants: Large Language Models and the Digital Classics Infrastructure
- 41: Nicola Reggiani: Machine Learning and Papyrology
- 42: Andreas Angourakis: Simulation and Agent-Based Modeling in Archaeology
- 43: Dries Daems: Agent-Based Modeling in Classical Archaeology
- 44: Anna Novokhatko: Agent-Based Modeling and Ancient Greek Drama
- 45: Anton Bonnier and Martin Finné: Digital Approaches to Landscape Changes and Human-Environment Dynamics
- 46: Stefano Campana: Investigating Roman Landscapes through Non-invasive Archaeology
- 47: Giacomo Landeschi: Sensory Archaeology in the Digital Age: Exploring Ancient Spaces through Computational Methods
- 48: Francesca Mazzilli and Tomá? Glomb: Formal Approaches to Sociospatial Networks and Religions
- 49: Chiara Palladino: Digital Spatial Narratives
- Section V. Case Studies
- 50: Mar A Rodda: Digital Linguistic Approaches to Homer
- 51: Maria Konstantinidou and John Pavlopoulos: Approaching Homer with NLP
- 52: Kostas Vlassopoulos, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Elton Barker: A Digital Prosopography of Enslaved Persons in Antiquity
- 53: Anna Foka, Brady Kiesling, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Linda Talatas, and Elton Barker: A Digital Periegesis: From Annotation to Data Modeling; or: How to Make a Project Mapping Pausanias Useful
- 54: Jon M Frey and Fotini Kondyli: Digital Investigations into Old Excavations
- 55: Philip T. Stinson: Digital Roman Architecture in Aphrodisias
- 56: Hariclia Brecoulaki and Christos Simatos: Reconstructing Ancient Greek Painting in the Age of AI: Visualizing the Aigai Hunt Frieze
- 57: Alberto Dalla Rosa, Milagros Navarro Caballero and Nathalie Prévôt: PETRAE: Platform for Digital Epigraphy
- 58: Christy Chapman, Kenneth Lapatin and W. Brent Seales: Historical Unfolding and Virtual Unwrapping of the Papyri from the Villa dei Papiri
- 59: Marguerite Spoerri Butcher, Chris Howgego, Andrew Wilson, and Cristian GÇzdac: The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project
- 60: Leif Scheuermann: Simulation of Transport between the Adriatic Sea and the Danube (STRADA)
- 61: Andrew Shapland and Felicity McDowall: Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality. Staging an Archaeological Exhibition in a Digital Era
- 62: Anne Hunnell Chen: Linked Open (Legacy) Data: The Case of Dura-Europos
- 63: Ian Dawson and Paul Reilly: Nessglyph Encounters New Materialism in an Art/Archaeology Phygital Nexus