History Faculty

a resource for visualizing Herodotus’s Histories

Visualization of guest friendship between ancient city-states with metadata.

A resource that links ancient texts to spatial data.

A project out of Northwestern that looks at classical influences in
Chicago across multiple media.

A similar project, but set in Philadelphia.

A mapping resource out of Stanford that lets you play around with movement in the Roman world and model how things and people would move through it.

Contains a pretty detailed, open-source, and free resource that links spatial and informational data on ancient sites.

A slightly clunky but interesting database that lets you examine the city-states of the Greek world and the people who lived in it.

Resource looking at how water is used in the city of Rome over time.

Interactive map of Augustan Rome that combines primary and secondary sources.

Various historic maps of Rome.

Series of 3D reconstructions of Athens over time, mediocre reconstructions.

Repository of 3d models of archaeological things.

Harvard initiative to build interactive study resources for the site of Giza.

Allows users to move through the reconstructed space.

Work includes tools for digital re-excavation, movement through an archaeological space, and a more hands-on approach to the creation of history. The text is also written at three different registers to appeal to different audiences.

Interview style podcast covering various topics from the Greek world with various experts.

Narrative history of Rome from Romulus to Romulus Augustulus. Good for general outline.

Two professors look at Roman history from different sources (have not listened, but very excited about this one. Based on source criticism approach to Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

Narrative podcast of Egyptian history.

A combination of narrative and topical podcasts relating to Greek history.