Legal Bodies in Classical Athens

Overview

A legal body here is an individual or group who either presides over or judges a legal proceeding. The ontology defines the bodies of the Athenian courts under that definition, drawing on the oratorical corpus and the Pseudo-Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.

It is the smallest dataset in the collection and the direct counterpart to the Ancient Greek Oratory Ontology: that one models the proceedings, this one models who heard them. In practice they are best queried together.

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

What are the terms in Ancient Greek and their definitions?

Every concept is denoted by one or more terms, and each term carries a language tag. Filtering on grc returns the Ancient Greek terms with their definitions.

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
        PREFIX otv: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/otv#>

        SELECT ?termName ?def
        WHERE {
          ?subject rdf:type otv:Concept.
          ?subject otv:denotedByTerm ?term.
          ?term    otv:termName       ?termName.
          ?term    otv:termDefinition ?def.
          ?term    otv:language       ?lg.
          FILTER (?lg = "grc")
        }
        ORDER BY ?termName

Swap the language code to change which terms come back: en for English, el for Modern Greek. Removing the filter returns every term in every language, so the same concept appears once per language.

Size & structure

Citation & licence

Cite as

Milio, R., Papadopoulou, M., & Roche, C. (2024).
Ontology of Legal Bodies in Classical Athens v.1.0 (Version V1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13386671

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13386671

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

Credits

Department of Philology, University of Crete