LibGuides: Classics & Ancient Studies: Mapping & Atlases

Online Mapping Resources

Ancient World Mapping Center: maps for students
50 high-resolution maps of the ancient world freely available for download. The latest mapmaking application aimed at developing maps for classroom use is the Antiquity À-la-carte application that allows the user to create their own maps.
Antiquity À-la-carte
From the Ancient World Mapping Center, this resource "brings together the best available scholarly spatial data with an intuitive interface that lets users freely create, save, share, and download maps in a variety of formats."
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC)
Free content from Harvard for a GIS approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.
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. DARMC allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization.
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Second version of the Pelagios project's base map. Provides extensive metadata and links to other geographical resources.
Digital Augustan Rome
Digital publication, with free downloadable data
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
ORBIS reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes c. 200 CE that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It can be used to calculate travel times from place to place using different forms of transport available at the time.
Pleiades
Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography. Open license.

Print Mapping Resources

Historical Atlas of the Ancient World by Richard Szydlak (Editor); Anne Wittke (Editor); Eckhart Olshausen (Editor)
Call Number: Butler G1033 .H57 2010g
ISBN: 9789004171565
Publication Date: 2009-12-14
This new atlas of the ancient world illustrates the political, economic, social and cultural developments in the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean world, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world and the Holy Roman Empire from the 3rd millennium BC until the 15th century AD. The atlas has 170 large color maps that document the main historical developments. Each map is accompanied by a text that outlines the main historical developments. These texts include bibliographies and 65 additional maps, tables and stemmata that provide further elucidation.
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by Richard J. A. Talbert
Call Number: Butler G1033 .B3 2000
ISBN: 069103169X
Publication Date: 2000-10-08
In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries Chronologically, the Barrington Atlas spans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are used to represent most regions.

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