User:Jonathan Groß/Roscher

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This is my sandbox for building a database based on Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (6 vol.s, 1884–1937).

Authors

In December 2023 I created FactGrid items for all 130 authors of Roscher's Lexikon, each with sitelinks to Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikidata (where available), labels and descriptions, given name(s) and surname, date and place of birth and death, GND and VIAF IDs. Some also have additional statements like place of address, education institution, memberships and so on.

In January and February 2024 I added 13 additional authors who contributed corrections and additions to the Lexicon which were published on the covers of the fascicles.

Query for all Roscher authors: https://tinyurl.com/ynlvx5po

Ontology

A fully developed and tested ontology for Greek mythology does not yet exist. For the classification of Roscher's article subjects I opted for basic terms that are specific and familiar enough to be useful. The articles in Roscher's Lexicon mainly describe deities, humans, mythical creatures and hybrids with some plants, objects, locations, concepts and events mixed in.

One large difficulty is in distinguishing individuals within the mythical personnel, especially when several lesser-known figures bear the same name (see Smith 2020a, 2020b). There are also competing genealogies add to this problem (Jason's mother, for example, has no name in Apollonius Rhodius's epos, and the mythographical tradition attests to three different names of her). And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg, as only a small fraction of myth is tangible to us through written texts, depictions and other ancient records. The unimaginably large and diverse mass of myth that existed in the billion minds of people in antiquity, which was shared and adapted orally as well as in other media, is lost to time forever.

For simplicity's sake, the following broad categories of mythical entites have been assigned to the entries in Roscher's Lexicon:

class of mythical entity

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  • Label
  • Description
  • Alias

Modelling items

FactGrid:Directory of Properties

Beings

Events

  • Cause of event: P464

Locations

Objects

References

  • Described by source: P702
  • Stated in: P850
  • Lemma: P11
  • Article (as string): P1008
    • Article (item): P98
  • Volume: P105
  • Column(s): P755
  • Author(s): P21
  • Date of publication: P222
  • Reference URL: P146
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