This project asks how, when, and why people in the ancient world were referring to their ancestral past. To do so, NYU DH Graduate Fellow Tsolakis built an RDF database and wrote programs to query existing databases based on large sets of epigraphic evidence and prosopographical information from printed prosopographies and online databases. The combined data sets enabled more specific lines of inquiry. For example: Why do some families connect their public presence with specific honorific epithets? How can name-patterns help us recognize members of the same family? What was the role of women in the public sphere and how it was revealed by means of endowments, benefactions, or priesthoods?