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Saturday, November 2, 2019

Mapping Strabo's Geographica


Recently Google reviewed the Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap. Herodotus, sometimes known equally the Father of History, was a 5th century Greek historian. In his 'Histories' Herodotus recounts the origins of the Great War betwixt the Greeks in addition to Persians in addition to the rising of the Western Farsi Empire.

The Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap connects the text of the Histories amongst a Simile timeline to let users to visualize geographical references inwards the Histories on a Google Map. Using the application y'all tin read through the chapters of the Histories in addition to sentiment the locations of all the place-names mentioned inwards the text on the accompanying map.


If Herodotus was the 'Father of History' in addition to thus the championship 'Father of Geography' could live on given to the Greek philosopher, historian in addition to geographer Strabo. In the early on days of the Roman Empire Strabo's 'Geographica' described the cultural in addition to geo-political basis of that time.

To accompany the publication of Duane W. Roller’s novel English linguistic communication translation of Strabo’s 'Geography' the University of Cambridge Press has released an interactive map of all the locations mentioned inwards Strabo's Geographica.

The Strabo Map uses Mapbox to add together place-name mentioned inwards the Geographica to an interactive map. If y'all buy the e-text of the novel translation y'all tin click through on place-name links inwards the text to sentiment the locations on the map. However the map itself is free, thus y'all tin explore the basis equally documented inwards Strabo's Geographica to your heart's content.

The map tiles used inwards the map are the same AWMC map tiles, equally used inwards the Pleides gazette of ancient places.