Project Members

Elton Barker is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at The Open University. He has written widely on ancient Greek literature, including forms of debate in epic, historiography and tragedy, (Entering the Agon, OUP, 2009) and the spatial form of Herodotus’s Histories (in New Worlds out of Old Texts, OUP, 2016). Inspired by Tony Robinson’s BBC Children’s TV series on Homer’s Troy story, he’s still living his 15-year-old self, publishing, with Joel Christensen, a Beginner’s Guide to Homer, as well as an in-depth study of interpoetic rivalry in Homer’s Thebes. When he’s not reading or writing about Homer, he’s helping to develop digital methods and tools for the study of historical places. A cofounder in 2011 of the Pelagios initiative for linking online resources about places, and instrumental in its transition to an open association in 2019, he is currently the Partnership Secretary, responsible for introducing the uninitiated to the potential of Linked Data.