Pleiades: a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places

Screen capture of a portion of the Pleiades home page, featuring a prominent map that shows the location and a description of a site on the island of Sicily called "Bagnoli di S. Gregorio".
  • edited by: Roger S Bagnall, Richard J. A Talbert, Tom Elliott, Gabe Moss, Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Adam Rabinowitz, Elizabeth Robinson, Brian Turner
  • 2006-ongoing
  • Ancient World Mapping Center; Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
Read: stoa.org

Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about over 36,000 ancient places and spaces (and growing). It provides 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.