Following Pausanias: The Quest for Greek Antiquity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In May of 2007, an international conference was held in Athens under the title Στὰ Βήματα του Παυσανίου (literally translated, In the Footsteps of Pausanias).The conference was a well-funded affair, with substantial support from the European Union and the Greek Ministry of Culture.Large glossy advertisements for the event were posted on the walls of the Athens Metro and in other high-visibility locations throughout the city.The speeches and paper sessions were accompanied by a poster display in the lobby of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and by a special exhibit of Pausanias-related material from the collection of the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies.The standing-room-only crowds attending the event were offered mementos to purchase, including a beautiful large-scale map showing the routes of Pausanias, and an attractive companion-volume in Greek bearing the title of the conference.Altogether, a remarkable amount of attention was lavished on an author who is little known outside of academia and who remains, in the eyes of many scholars of antiquity, a dull and uninteresting recorder of interesting information.A short time after the conference, an English translation of the companion-volume emerged with the title transformed to Following Pausanias; and it is this edition that is currently under review.Participants in the conference included philologists and archaeologists from several countries, yet the organizers and a majority of the contributors to both the conference and the current volume were Greek scholars, which is worth noting because little significant scholarship on Pausanias (as distinct from the sites and monuments
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".