ALyrA: Archaic Lyric Agora

Overview

ALyrA models the poets of archaic Greek lyric, the poems attributed to them, and the terminology that distinguishes one genre of poem from another. Poets carry their four-digit Thesaurus Linguae Graecae identifier and, where known, links to Perseus and Pleiades coordinates for their birthplace.

Scope

Access the data

Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

Ways in

• SPARQL endpoint: browser interface, no setup
• OTV Ontology Viewer: browse the class hierarchy
• RDF Graph Viewer: explore as a network
• Download the RDF/OWL and .otb files

The .otb file opens in TEDI; the .rdf file opens in Protégé, and can be visualised with WebVOWL.

Example queries

Who was Pindar?

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX alyra: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/ALyrA_v.1.0#>

SELECT ?propertyName ?value
FROM <http://ontologia.fr/OTB/ALyrA_v.1.0.rdf>
WHERE {
  alyra:pindarus_boeotus ?x ?y .
  ?x rdfs:label ?propertyName .
  ?y rdfs:label ?value .
  FILTER(LANG(?value) = 'en')
}
ORDER BY ?value

Further queries are published with the Zenodo record: what distinguishes each genre of lyric poem, which poets composed hymns, the TLG number of each composer, and which birthplace produced the most lyric poets.

Size & structure

Citation & licence

Cite as

Giannadakis, R., & Papadopoulou, M. (2024).
Archaic Lyric Agora (ALyrA) - Ontoterminology of Archaic Lyric Poets - 
version 1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13371967

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13371967

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

Credits

Department of Philology, University of Crete