Pleiades
International knowledge sharing for classical scholars.
The Pleiades project holds historical information and research about the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds in a geographical context, using the tool of interactive mapping to store and display content.
The site is available for all to view and registered users can contribute via their own designated workspace. Blogs, news and other features supplement the site’s main content, which draws its data from the Barrington Atlas of the Ancient World.
How can this collection be used in teaching, studying and research?
Pleiades is particularly useful to expert researchers and scholars of the classical period - it offers a high level of specific detail and is most suited to those with a particular research need or with content to contribute.
Highlights from this collection
The ancient city of Olympos – now found in modern Turkey and once of the most important cities in the Lycian Federation – is listed on the site, alongside Pompeii, whose inhabitants famously perished when Vesuvius erupted in AD79.
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Arts and Humanities, Geography and Environment, Classics and Ancient History, Humanities, History, Science, Engineering and Technology
