Classical and Mediterranean Studies Resources: GIS & Classics

Information on using GIS and finding GIS data at Vanderbilt.

The ELA Database is an open-access online resource aimed at providing to scholars a new research tool for a topographical study of the Athenian public inscriptions as communication media in the frame of The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens project.

Includes news and updates to the Barrington Atlas

The iDAI.gazetteer is a webservice, which connects toponyms with coordinates and is meant to work in two directions. Internally it serves as the authority file for all geo-related information and information-systems of the German Archaeological Institute. It is also supposed to connect this data with other worldwide gazetteer-systems.

A database providing a set of reliable locations for all Mycenaean sites in Greece and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

Pelagios Commons provides online resources and a community forum for using open data methods to link and explore historical places

Peripleo* is a search engine to data maintained by partners of Pelagios Commons, a Digital Humanities initative aiming to foster better linkages between online resources documenting the past. Explore data about ancient places and objects published by our global community of scholars, projects and institutions. Discover connections. Visualize change over time.

leiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license. It publishes not just for individual human users, but also for search engines and for the widening array of computational research and visualization tools that support humanities teaching and research.

The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project is a unique resource for the study of ancient Pompeii: an exhaustive subject repository made searchable through a GIS map.

Roman aqueducts are amongst the most impressive and interesting structures that have survived from the Ancient World. Although aqueduct bridges such as the Pont du Gard are best known, roman aqueducts are complex water supply line systems that are impressive feats of engineering even by today's standards. Some of the aqueducts are simple water channels, but many contain complex structures such as inverted siphons, tunnels, basins and drop shafts while the channels themselves can be up to 240 km in length. Over 1400 roman aqueducts have been described in the Mediterranean basin and the aim of this website is to present the available corpus of literature on the subject in a systematic way. Besides available literature on each aqueduct, we aim to present summarized data on each aqueduct.