Heroes and XML

awesome work from the Journey of the Hero class! A pilot project for an annotated social network of Greek mythology:
http://www.perseids.org/sites/joth/

http://macg4cube.gpam.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/abbrev.php

Thanks Natalie for these links! Reposting here!

A. Cappelli. Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiani. Index

For those interested in Kon-Tiki!

Kon-Tiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerd…

We had a great time with the Hereford Map in the Medieval Latin class last week! Thanks Chris Barbour!

Down and dirty fairy tales: How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys... The translator of a newly discovered trove of 150-year-old tales on the gender-bending surprises found there

'Forgotten' Magna Carta Found In Archives A 'forgotten' edition of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a council's archives.

For those who may want to travel to Montreal

The Greeks - Agamemnon to Alexander the Great - Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of... Pointe-à-Callière Presents the World Première of the Largest Exhibition on Ancient Greece Ever Produced in North AmericaNEW: in addition of the regular museum opening hours, The Greeks exhibition will be open on Wednesdays, from 5 p.m to 9 p.m, from February 11 to April 22, 2015. This schedule appli…

Want to see an awesome collection of manuscripts? http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/01_ACCESS_WALTERS_MANUSCRIPTS.html

The Digital Walters - Digitized Walters Manuscripts With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 deluxe editions, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. The collection is from all over the world, and from ancie…