Pleiades

34,764 Ancient Places

30,163 Ancient Names

38,700 Ancient Locations

Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography.

The most recently modified resources are shown in the map at left.

All published content is accessible to everyone under open license. To join and contribute new or improved content, please see Welcome to Pleiades.

For a complete listing of editors, content contributors, and financial supporters, please see the credits page.

Pleiades is a joint project of the Ancient World Mapping Center, the Stoa Consortium, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Copyrights on software and content are held by the participating institutions and by the individual contributors listed below. Using, sharing, and remixing of the content is permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Senior Editors:Roger Bagnall, Richard Talbert
Managing Editors:Tom Elliott, Ryan Horne
Associate Editors:Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Sean Gillies, Michael McCormick, Adam Rabinowitz, Brian Turner
Reviewers:Stefano Costa, Arthur De Graauw, Stuart Dunn, Noah Kaye, Perry Scalfano, Scott Vanderbilt