Giulia Re

Gloria Mugelli, Giulia Re, Andrea Taddei & Federico Boschetti describe the Ephoria EDU system, a resource for digital annotation of ancient texts developed by the Lab. of Anthropology of Ancient Greece (LAMA), the CoPhiLab at the ILC-CNR in Pisa and the Venice Digital and Public Humanities Department. The system allows to structure textual information by connecting keywords and creating networks of concepts such as ritual actions in Greek Tragedy. It is applicable to all kinds of linguistic or cultural observations, allowing a wide range of collaboration between teachers and students from high school to university.

The parodos of the Suppliant Women (1-175) shows references to natural elements and landscapes described in words by the characters, but not represented on scene. A closer observation of the ways these landscapes are mentioned allows to go back to hints of social and religious notions, and to practices related to marriage in V cent. B.C, as well as to recognize the imagery linked to divinities as Hera and Zeus Teleioi, whose action is alluded to, but not directly expressed in the text.
This analysis will focus on the strategies of verbalizing landscape, trying to bring up social and religious notions through the spaces mentioned by the parodos in a circular structure (sea- land – sea).
The enhancement of the religious components of the spaces the Danaids place themselves will show how their uncompromising hostility towards sexuality and marriage is destined to be normalized according to the divine τέλος (end) prescribed by Hera and Aphrodite to all unmarried girls.

Euporia is a digital annotation tool for teaching and learning developed in a partnership between CoPhiLab (CNR, Pisa) and LAMA (Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo Antico). The present paper shows the application of Euporia in ancient languages didactics. Euporia is mainly conceived as a support tool in studying ancient texts from a historical and anthropological perspective, covering a wide range of uses, from ecdotics to hermeneutic. As primary use the annotation tool served as a support for PhD researches, but in the last years it has been tested in experimental didactics of ancient Greek, in both University and liceo classico. The different annotation projects we launched in secondary schools in the last three years have shown some interesting results in enhancing the learning processes and in raising the interest towards ancient language and culture.