Sasha Trubetskoy, an undergrad at U. Chicago, has created a “subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Drawing on Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary, Trubetskoy’s map combines well-known historic roads, like the Via Appia, with lesser-known ones (in somes cases given imagined names). If you want to get a sense of scale, it would take, Trubetskoy tells us, “two months to walk on foot from Rome to Byzantium. If you had a horse, it would only take you a month.”
You can view the map in a larger format here. And if you follow this link and send Trubetskoy a few bucks, he promises to email you a crisp PDF for printing. Enjoy.
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I was led here from dangerous mind’s fb page. So it was probably them.
Dangerous minds
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/Kasper
Hi!
I sent the cash to Sasha via PayPal, but I haven’t received any file yet. Thanks.
openculture.com sent me here
This style of map originated with designer Massimo Vignelli’s NYC Transit map in 1972: https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/06/23/the-subway-and-the-city-massimo-vignelli-1931–2014/
So do we need to change horses if we change from one road color to another?
Very nice idea. But it is done by very uniformed person. Limes should be a distinctive line on your map. Many thing in Danube-Balkan region would be much more correct
Roma’s tour operator ? Very smart. Ciao