compiled by Jonathan Groß ORCID 0000-0002-2564-9530 jgross85 [AT] gmail [DOT] com
1. Introduction
1.1. General Disclaimer
This index file was created as a private research project with the goal to make the wealth of information in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's "Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology" (Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie) more accessible to everyone.
Roscher's Lexicon, originally published by B. G. Teubner in Leipzig from 1884 to 1937, is the most complete resource on Greek and Roman mythological names to date and also encompasses mythological (and religious) subjects from Sumeran, Akkadian, Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian, Celtic, Germanic and other neighbouring cultures.
The Lexicon was reprinted three times in the latter half of the 20th century (by Georg Olms in Hildesheim), even after its pictorial content had been superceded by the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (1981–1999, 2009). Unfortunately, since the last reprint in 1992/1993, Roscher's Lexicon has been out of stock at both publishers (Olms and De Gruyter Brill).
Since the late 2000s Roscher's Lexicon (the 6 main volumes and the 4 supplements) has been digitised by initiatives such as Google Books and the Internet Archive, and its contents can now be viewed (with OCR text) there. One prominent use case of these scans is the German Wikipedia, where over 2000 pages use Roscher's Lexicon as a reference with a link to a scanned page in the Internet Archive.
1.2. Licensing
The file "RLM Index 1.0.ods" and its contents are released under the CC0 1.0 Universal License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) in order to maximise its useability.
Use and reuse of this data is strongly encouraged, and two use cases have already been initiated by the author:-https://mythogram.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Roscher%27s_Lexicon_of_Mythology (presentation of the information from the index file as Linked Open Data)-https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:Roschers_Lexikon_der_Mythologie (sets of entities from Mythology as described by Roscher's Lexicon)
(As of the initial publication of this data, both projects are still in preparation.)
Although not technically required by the licensing agreement, the author would appreciate being informed about other uses of the data.
2. Description of Data
The index file is presented as tabular data. This file was created with LibreOffice Calc 7.6.6.3 and is stored in its native .o...