Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World KU Leuven
Facebooking the past. The idea grew a couple of years ago, while developing a database of all people mentioned in texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (350 BC – AD 800). The 500,000 or so attestations of individuals in Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org) opened up prospects for quantitative analysis, something historians still tend to shy away from. To reconstruct social networks, a decent prosopography is indispensable, however. While working on ...