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Maps allow us to visualize more than just landmarks. They also enable us to consider the migration of people, the history of trade routes, and the exchange of culture. The Mythodikos project, Ancient Greek for “connected to myth”, will create a dataset and searchable map-interface which will allow a student or scholar to consider mythological figures not just as they are associated with particular texts, authors, and traditions of writing, but also as they are connected to various geographical spaces. Unlike traditional forms of scholarship concerned with literature and mythology, which are readily capable of dealing with questions of "Who", "What", and even "How", this mapping project will open up consideration of the question of "Where" a particular mythological figure appears in literary accounts. Mythodikos will allow us to consider the movement of a particular figure throughout space, speculate on the geographical scope in which their story was transmitted, and imagine the connections between certain localities on account of their shared association with a mythological figure.

Mythodikos is currently in the middle stages of its development.   Work has been done to develop a text-mining tool using Python and Natural Language Processing methods that can be used to search the Perseus Digital Library Greek corpus for a test set of person-place connections and to record these search results as a preliminary dataset.  Current stages of work involve integration of ancient geographical data provided by Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/) with the current dataset, and development of a preliminary LeafletJS map that draws upon this information, which will be completed by the time of the SCS-AIA 2022 Annual Meeting.  Future work (which will likely be ongoing at the time of the meeting) will include expansion of the initial dataset in Greek, and development of a similar framework for incorporating information from Latin texts.