SunoikisisDC University of Lyon Plan

University of Lyon 2

I. Session 1 : Visualization of chronological data :

• Creating 2 timelines :

a. "Thucydides in his time" :

• Placing Thucydides in his century, among historians, playwrighters, politicians of his time.
• Problems with visualizing the periods of time that overlap with each other.

b. "Life of Thucydides" :

• Selecting the sections of The History of the Peloponnesian War in which Thucydides talks about himself in 1st person or indirect speech.
• Inventory
• Commentary
• Visualisation of these data with a timeline using Timemapper. Links to the texts in Perseus. Adding media.Life of Thucydides' timeline

II. Session 2 : Text Alignment

• Teaching the students how to use Alpheios for Text Alignement.
• Practicing with the translation of the first text : Birth of Thucydides (I, 1), from Greek to French.

III. Session 3 : Creating a website using Wordpress

• Experiments with Wordpress, relevant or not for the resources we want to provide ?

IV. Session 4 : Preparing the workshop in May : focusing on Thasos walls

• Listing the different data that we need to study Thasos walls. Working with Y. Grandjean's publication, creating the frame of study :
• Selecting texts mentioning the τεῖχος (Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocratus, etc)
• Checking the translation
• Creating a timeline using Timeline JS : Thasos walls Timeline

V. Session 5 : Creating a blog on Hypothese.org

VI. Session 6 : Visualization

• Finishing Life of Thucydides' Timeline :
• Discussing the relevance of adding certain media (picture of a manuscript e.g.)
• Finishing the translation of the texts we selected.