Herodotus, the Father of History, was a 5th century Greek historian. The Histories of Herodotus recounts the origins of the Great War betwixt the Greeks together with Persians together with the ascension of the Western Farsi Empire.
The Hestia Project was set-up to bear out geospatial analysis of Herodotus's Histories. Part of that projection includes this Herodotus Timemap. The Timemap connects the text of the Histories alongside a Simile timeline to permit users to visualize geographical references inwards the Histories on a Google Map.
As y'all progress through the chapters of the Histories the markers automatically update on the map to demonstrate the referenced locations. You tin too progress through the text together with the map past times using the Simile timeline.
GapVis has too created a really like text, Simile timeline together with Google Map of Herodotus' Histories. GapVis is an interface for exploring locations referenced inwards a publish of historical texts. The projection aims to geo-tag together with demonstrate the locations of ancient places mentioned inwards around of the cardinal books from together with almost the ancient world.
Currently the interface allows y'all to explore texts such equally Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline together with Fall of the Roman Empire, The Works of Flavius Josephus, The First together with Thirty-third Books of Pliny's Natural History equally good equally Herodotus' Histories.
The GapVis Map of the Histories too includes an interesting breakdown of the most mentioned places inwards the text together with the publish of times that they are mentioned.
