Digital Classics

ABSTRACT

Today we find a large audience for Classical Studies online from podcasts and Twitter feeds to informal reading groups and virtual performance of plays, there is an appetite for information on the ancient world that is often filled by professionals and semi-professionals who move between spheres of conventional training and the enthusiasts' realm (e.g., Reddit). There are still important steps to be made in the curation of texts, the collection of images and archaeological artifacts, the construction of classroom space, the exploration of performance, and the creation of virtual environments. A good example of this is the Ancient Lives project, which followed earlier institutional initiatives like the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) to transcribe and edit papyri.9 It creates a massive and searchable database on the foundation of distributed authorship and distributed institutional cost for storage and bandwidth. Mapping and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data have been at the forefront of providing new frameworks