ToposText vs Πολυκεντρικό Μουσείο Αιγών

A project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation A new way of experiencing Europe’s most ancient literary culture, implanted in its unforgettable landscape. ToposText is a new interface that links readers and travelers to Europe’s most ancient literary culture and to the Greek landscape that inspired it. TT presents 5000 places relevant to the ancient Greek world -- ancient cities and shrines, medieval castles and towers, modern museums and excavation sites -- primarily in Greece but including major places from Spain to the Caucasus. It links those places to the ancient authors who wrote about them in Greek or Latin. A large classical library married to an up-to-date gazetteer, freely available as a mobile application or this web site. Education / Reference Tool: - Accurate coordinates for thousands of Greek historical sites - Each site indexed to the ancient literary sources that mention it. - A huge, free, portable library of classical texts in English - Texts and places stored on-device – no internet access necessary. - Location-aware display of site information. - Recent archaeological information on many sites.

This interactive app consists of three stages and 12 stops. After installing the app, stage one offers the choice of two languages (English-Greek) and two versions, for kids or for adults. Scanning the icon next to each display case will lead you to the relevant informational text. Before accessing each stop’s text, the kids version opens up the video of one of the animated moving Aigai bees. The concept behind this draws inspiration from the bee of Aigai, ever-present on the royal golden wreaths, assuming here the role of tour guide for the kids as they wander through the museum. There are 12 bee drawings in total. The informational text of the adult version can be saved in pdf form.