Description
In 2015 a team at the University of Groningen engaged in studying agonistic religious festivals as the base for some of the strongest networks across the Greek world. In order to more closely examine these networks, we developed a database with the aim of incorporating all of the known competitors at games in the post-classical world, largely drawn from epigraphic data. In 2016 we obtained a grant from the University of Groningen to further develop this as an online database, while another grant in 2021 allowed us to include a basic mapping functionality shows distributions and helps visualize the data. The result is http://connectedcontests.org. Essential data concern the , family, and origin of the competitor, the name of the festival and the city that hosted it, and a chronology, among other relevant data. With this information we can address questions such as: Where did athletes come from? Which cities did they compete in? How relevant were local festivals in a larger world of festivals? How does the image change over time? The database connects where possible to other online databases, such as the Packhard Humanities epigraphy database, the prosopgraphic database Trismegistos, and the ancient gazetteer Pleidades. In 2018 Connected Contests led to a major grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world, with two PhD projects and a postdoc position (https://connectingthegreeks.com). Although it has already led to fruitful studies, Connected Contests is still a work-in-progress with challenges ahead concerning long-term data completion, current web design, and general maintenance in the face of progressive technologies.| Periode | 30-aug.-2023 → 2-sep.-2023 |
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| Evenementstitel | 29th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting: Weaving Narratives |
| Evenementstype | Conference |
| Conferentienummer | 29 |
| Locatie | BelfastToon op kaart |
| Mate van erkenning | International |