Credits

Project Team:

Dr. Sandra Blakely – Project Director, Emory University, Department of Classics

Sandra Blakely is an Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University, where her research integrates anthropological, archaeological and Classical approaches to Greek religion and myth. Her foci include mystery cults, the fragmentary Greek historians Herodoros, Conon and Alexander Polyhistor, and the daimones associated with metallurgy as well as with the Samothracian rites. In her current book project, The Anthropology of an Island Cult: Maritime Networks and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace, she brings Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to the epigraphic record of the Great Gods of Samothrace, to test the hypothesis that the safety at sea the Samothracian rites promised was a social reality as well as a mythic metaphor.

Robert C. Bryant – Lead Programmer and Simulation Designer, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Bryant is the Lead Programmer and Simulation Designer behind the Samothracian Networks game Sailing with the Gods: Argonauts and Samothracians in an Ancient Sea. He completed his Master’s degree in Computer Science at Georgia State University, and has worked on projects from 3D Atlanta to the ongoing archaeological field research in Oglangala, Azerbaijan (Naxçivan). His work on the gamification of the Great Gods of Samothrace is one among many contributions to gaming, history and digital design. He’s currently the Programmer for the UPenn Museum TARA project, and a PhD Student in the UPenn Anthropology department.

Kevin Dressel – Programmer and Designer, Shiny Dolphin Games LLC

Kevin Dressel is another Programmer developing Sailing with the Gods: Argonauts and Samothracians in an Ancient Sea. Kevin founded Shiny Dolphin Games LLC in 2016. He is an independent programmer who has previously worked at Zynga on games like CityVille, Ninja Kingdom, and Puzzle Charms.

Dr. Joanna C. Mundy – Digital Projects Specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Joanna Mundy is a Digital Projects Specialist in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. She received her PhD from Emory University in Art History, 2018. For her dissertation she explored the built domestic environment in ancient urban houses, domūs and insulae, in the city of Rome in the first to fifth century CE and includes a social network analysis of households in the fourth century city. Her work for Samothracian Networks includes mySQL database design, so that the project database interacts with geospatial and network data. She works with network analysis software, produces network visualizations, and manages the website.

Sara E. Palmer – Digital Text Specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Sara Palmer received an MA in Film and Media Studies from Emory University in 2012. At the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, she consults with researchers on creating online exhibits, designing databases, generating network visualizations, and performing textual markup and analysis.

Craig Brasco – Visual Interface Collaborator, Kennesaw State University, Assistant Professor of Art | Graphic Communications

Dr. Philip Kiernan – Outreach and Consultant, Kennesaw State University, Assistant Professor of Art History

Leigh Cole Furrh – Research Assistant, Emory University

Leigh (Cole) Furrh completed his BA in Classics at Emory University, and his MA in Art History at the University of Toronto. He has done extensive archaeological work in Greece with the Petras Excavation Project and the Gournia Excavation Project. He was also a 2016 Jane C. Waldbaum Archaeological Field School Scholarship recipient. He prepared data from multiple Argonautica sources both for the Game and the Social Network.

Alex Jester – Research Assistant, Agnes Scott College

Alex Jester is pursuing a B.A. in Classical Languages and Literatures at Agnes Scott College, where she also works at Information Technology Services. She is especially interested in the intersection of Classics and technology, and plans to pursue a career that incorporates this overlap. She researches numismatic data for Samothracian Networks.

Joe Fritsch – Digital Scholarship Associate, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

In his research Joe Fritsch, PhD candidate in English, focuses on the intersection of global Anglophone poetry and histories of technology. He supports Samothracian Networks in 3D modelling for the Game. His interest in CAD and 3D design comes from first hand witness of the importance of space to literacy while managing ILS databases in a New York pubic library; he recently used CAD software to recreate the floor plan of the Globe Theatre in order to teach students about Shakespeare’s London and digital methods.

Data:

The mapping functions of the network data utilize names and positions provided by Pleiades where possible. Some maps were made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.

Game code: The game code is available on Github at https://github.com/robcbryant/sailingwiththegods and https://github.com/kddressel/sailingwiththegods licensed under a GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0. If you would like to contribute to the game, the game can be downloaded from Github and imported into Unity 5.0.1.

The data presented here is made available for sharing and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by). This includes game visualizations and graphs.

Illustrations:

Some game illustrations are licensed by the artists. Individual licenses will be listed here. A Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical 4.0 License (cc-by-nc) is applicable to any illustrations for which a license is not specified.

The game illustrations “Ainos Coin”, “Aigeai Coin”, and “Aegina Coin” by Martiti C. Mundy are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright M. C. Mundy, 2017, some rights reserved.

The following illustrations are Copyright Emory University – Samothracian Networks, 2017, some rights reserved.

The game illustrations “Acarnania Coin”, “Histiaia Coin”, “Delos Coin”, “Apollonia Coin”, and “Aegiale Coin”, created by Kelin Michael.
The game illustration “Jason”, created by Christina Gilstrap. “Jason” is in the version alpha 4.4 of the game and later versions.
The game illustrations for the “Port Goods Icons”, created by Seth Byrd, Kennesaw State University. The “Port Goods Icons” can be seen in the port menu in version alpha 4.4 of the game and later versions.
The game illustrations for the “Crew”, created by Kennesaw State University spring 2018 Illustration students. The “Crew” can be seen in the first selection menu in version alpha 5.0 of the game.
1. Julee Davis illustrated: Hylas, Admetus, Eurytion, Telamon, Antipatros son of Iatrokleios, Aitolian Warrior, and Seleucid Sailor.
2. Paola Paniagua illustrated: Canthus, Erginus, Herokles, Peleus, Polyphemus, Spartan Warrior, and Zollos.
3. Jason Volk illustrated: Orpheus, Asterion, Iphitus, Kallipos son of Eukleidos, Diodotos son of Zenon, and Macedonian Warrior.
4. Brooke Barrett illustrated: Ancaeus, Polydeuces/Castor, Butes, Palemonius, Nikomedes son of Diodoros, Theokles son of Nymphodoros, and Phoenician sailor.
5. Eloisa Gallegos illustrated: Aethalides, Egyptian Sailor, Eukleides son of Antigonos, Idas, Idmon, and Lysias son of Lysias.
6. Erica Sause illustrated: Ancaeus, Billaros son of Hermios, Etruscan Warrior, Iphiclus, and Theodoros son of Pilodoxos.
7. Ren Nesper illustrated: Periclymenus, Rhodian Sailor, Theodotos son of Badromios, Tiphys, and Eurydamas.

Please reference this site using the following format:

Blakely, S. et. al. “Page Title.” Samothracian Networks. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/samothraciannetworks/ (accessed Month Date, Year).

Sponsors:

This website was created with the support of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, 2015.