The paper aims to provide a methodological proposal for applying GIS softwares to the literary analysis of classical texts. The descriptions from Pausanias' Periegesis have been georeferenced in a digital maps after being adapted to a specific taxonomy, aimed to facilitate the search for the mapped data. From the complete digitization of the work, a series of case studies were derived in order to illustrate possible applications, particularly in light of the specific phenomenon of the distribution of abandoned settlements in Roman-era Greece, part of the author's narration.

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