Ancient Maps Online

The editor of the Barrington Atlas, Richard J.A. Talbert, is now acting director of the Ancient World Mapping Center. This center has a Pleiades project to place ancient maps freely available online (for those of us who don't have $350 for the Barrington Atlas).

This article has an overview of the project: Mapping Voyages Back in Time: How scholars create an atlas of the ancient world.


Quoting from the Pleiades site:

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Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches (like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review, Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names, descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future AWMC publications and data services.

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Sounds great. I'm fully in support of the free online information, and scholar-reviewed open sources, though there are more of the former at the moment than the latter. Its great that some classicists have been heavily involved in these sorts of moves.