New Mapping The Histories

Herodotus, the Father of History, was a 5th century Greek historian. The Histories of Herodotus recounts the origins of the Great War betwixt the Greeks together with Persians together with the rising of the Western Farsi Empire.

The Hestia Project was set-up to comport out geospatial analysis of Herodotus's Histories. Part of that projection includes this Herodotus Timemap. The Timemap connects the text of the Histories alongside a Simile timeline to let users to visualize geographical references inwards the Histories on a Google Map.

As yous progress through the chapters of the Histories the markers automatically update on the map to exhibit the referenced locations. You tin hand the axe too progress through the text together with the map past times using the Simile timeline.

GapVis has too created a real like text, Simile timeline together with Google Map of Herodotus' Histories. GapVis is an interface for exploring locations referenced inwards a let on of historical texts. The projection aims to geo-tag together with exhibit the locations of ancient places mentioned inwards approximately of the fundamental books from together with nearly the ancient world.

Currently the interface allows yous to explore texts such every bit Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline together with Fall of the Roman Empire, The Works of Flavius Josephus, The First together with Thirty-third Books of Pliny's Natural History every bit good every bit Herodotus' Histories.

The GapVis Map of the Histories too includes an interesting breakdown of the most mentioned places inwards the text together with the let on of times that they are mentioned.