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 together with Persians together with the rising of the Western Farsi Empire.

The Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap connects the text of the Histories amongst a Simile timeline to permit users to visualize geographical references inward the Histories on a Google Map. Using the application you lot tin read through the chapters of the Histories together with persuasion the locations of all the place-names mentioned inward the text on the accompanying map.


If Herodotus was the 'Father of History' together with thus the championship 'Father of Geography' could hold upward given to the Greek philosopher, historian together with geographer Strabo. In the early on days of the Roman Empire Strabo's 'Geographica' described the cultural together with 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 inward Strabo's Geographica.

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

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