Geography and Topography

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman Worldedited by Richard J.A. Talbert, in collaboration with Roger S. Bagnall … [ et al.] ; map editors, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel; and cartographic managers, Janet E. Kelly, Jeannine M. Schonta, David F. Stong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Tisch Ref Folio G1033. B3 2000 c.1Also CD ROM: Circulation Desk G1033 .B3 2000 Supplemental Disc

Latin Place Names.
A list of vernacular equivalents of Latin place names based on: R.A. Peddie’s Place Names in Imprints: An Index to the Latin and Other Forms Used on Title Pages and J.T.G. Graesse’s Orbis LatinusLexicon Lateinischer Geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit

A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome.  Lawrence Richardson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c.1992. Tisch Book Stacks DG68.R5 1992

Orbis Latinus by J. G. Th. Graesse (Columbia University)

Platner’s A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (University of Chicago).

Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman GeographyWilliam Smith. Boston, Little, Brown & co., 1854-[57].   Tisch Reference DE25. S662                  

Mapping Past Societies. This database 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 Augustan Rome. Digital publication, with free downloadable data.

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. ORBIS reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes c. 200 CE that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It can be used to calculate travel times from place to place using different forms of transport available at the time.

Pleiades. Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography.