Category: Maps

Ancient City: Application of Novel Geo-Information Technologies in Ancient Greek Urban Studies

I received an email from Jamie Donati who kindly shared with me more information about the Ancient City project and website, which provides the: aims and scope of the project (including digitization, remote sensing, geophysical mapping, GIS analysis, and dissemination) archaeological sites of the Peloponnese under study technical reports about geophysical survey and remote sensing presentations and publications (with available downloads)…

March 21, 2016
Bridge of the Untiring Sea (Gebhard and Gregory, eds.)

I finally have my hands on Bridge of the Untiring Sea: the Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, fresh off the press (December 2015) from the Princeton office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. I wrote briefly about this forthcoming book in June (here and here). The Bridge has been a long time in the making. It…

February 18, 2016
Pleiades Retooled

Last month I noted that the Pleiades Gazetteer received a major digital humanities implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make substantive changes to the project’s infrastructure. Tom Elliot has written a little more about how the grant will extend and improve the project’s functionality. Here’s the relevant section from the press release: Over the next three years, ISAW…

September 16, 2015
Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Brummett)

This new book on the Ottomans published by Cambridge University Press should inform our readings of the sizable corpus of 16th to early 19th century traveler accounts to the Corinthia. The work considers how European maps, travel itineraries, and accounts of the eastern Mediterranean served to appropriate territory and construct an image of the Ottoman against classical and biblical imagery: Brummett, Palmira. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and…

August 10, 2015