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Atlases & Geographical Sources

Online

  • Ancient World Mapping Center: maps for students
    50 high-resolution maps of the ancient world freely available for download. See Pleiadesfor a database of geographic information related to the Greco-Roman world linked to Google 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)
    “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. See here for the Pelagiosbase map (2012).
  • Digital Augustan Rome
  • ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
    “… reconstructs the time, cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity.”
  • TIB: Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini
    “The TIB carries out systematic research in the historical geography of the Byzantine Empire, from the beginning of the 4th century to the mid-15th century. The aim of the project is to create a historical atlas of the Byzantine space from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period.”

In Print

  • The Geographic Background of Greek & Roman History. Cary, M. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1949; (repr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981).
    Classmark: DE 29
  • A Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson, 1986. Grant, Michael.
    Classmark: DE 25 GRA
  • The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece. Morkot, Robert. London; New York: Penguin, 1996.
    Good basic atlas. Especially useful for history modules.
    Classmark: G 2001.S1 M6 MOR
  • A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1992. Brilliant resource for all the buildings and geographical features of ancient Rome.
    Classmark: LRG DG 68 RIC
  • Atlas of Classical History. Grant, Michael. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
    Classmark: G 1033 GRA
  • Atlas of Ancient archaeology Hawkes, Jacquetta. Heinemann, 1974.
    Classmark: LRG GN 739 HAW
    Although dated, this atlas provided brief introductory facts about archaeological sites in antiquity. It covers known and lesser-known sites from around the world. It includes site maps and a brief bibliography of each site, and a chronological chart from 7000 BC to 2000 AD.
  • Mapping Augustan Rome. Haselberger, Lothar, dir., in collaboration with David Gilman Romano. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002.
    Classmark LRG GA 895.R7 M37 HAS
  • Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Steinby, E.M., ed. 6 vols. Rome: Quasar, 1993-2000.
    Classmark LRG DG 63 STE V.6F
  • History of Humanity: From Rome’s beginning to the 7th century C.E. Vol. 3.
    Details the history of monuments and sites. There are plates at the back of each volume.
  • Atlas of Classical History. Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. New York: Macmillan, 1985; repr., London: Routledge, 1988.
    Classmark G 1033 TAL
  • Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Talbert, Richard J.A., ed.
    Classmark: LRG G 1033 TAL DIRECTORY V.2
  • Historical atlas of the ancient world. New Pauly Supplement 3. Edited by Anne-Maria Wittke, Eckart Olshausen, and Richard Szydlak ; in collaboration with Vera Sauer and other specialists; English edition by Christine F. Salazar, with Dieter Prankel, Duncan Smart (translation), and Corinna Vermeulen (editing). 2010.
    Classmark: LRG DE 5 WIT