Storytelling networks and community crises in ancient Greece

该项目旨在通过对古代希腊神话（公元前800年至公元400年）的分析，研究公共危机如何影响讲故事。它使用一个创新的数字平台，将神话数据构建为叙事网络，希望产生关于自然灾害、流行病、移民和战争影响的新知识，并展示叙事如何作为增强复原力的战略。研究结果包括一种新的方法，用于对社区破坏的叙事网络进行建模，并揭示社会和文化基础设施的保护作用。它将提供显著的好处，比如提高对历史偶然事件如何决定哪些故事流传下来的理解，以及更好地向公众开放希腊神话的研究。

This project aims to investigate how communal crises impact storytelling through an analysis of Greek myth in antiquity (800BC-AD400). Using an innovative digital platform that structures mythic data as narrative networks, it expects to generate new knowledge about the impact of natural disasters, epidemics, migration and war and show how narratives work as strategies for resilience. The outcomes include a new method for modelling narrative networks against community disruption and revealing the preservative effects of social and cultural infrastructures. It will provide significant benefits, such as an improved understanding of how historical contingencies determine which stories survive, and better public access to research on Greek myth.