This website tries to bring
together all scholars dealing with disability history of the ancient
world. Quite contrary to disability studies for other periods, research
into this subject has just begun to develop and specialists are few.
We hope this site will be a tool to bring scholars together, and a way to announce new developments.
We
take Antiquity as spanning a broad geographical and chronological
range: also disability historians of e.g. the Sumerian or Babylonian
period, those focusing on Jewish or Persian culture, as well as
specialists of late Antiquity, are kindly invited to join!
— Prof. Dr. Christian Laes
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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