The Roads of Historical Rome Visualized within the Type of Fashionable Subway Maps

Sasha Tru­wager­skoy, for­mer­ly an beneath­grad at U. Chica­go, has cre­at­ed a “sub­way-style dia­gram of the key Roman roads, primarily based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Draw­ing on Stanford’s ORBIS mod­el, The Pela­gios Mission, and the Anto­9 Itin­er­ary, Tru­wager­skoy’s map com­bines well-known his­toric roads, just like the Through Appia, with much less­er-known ones (in somes cas­es giv­en imag­ined names). If you wish to get a way of scale, it could take, Tru­wager­skoy tells us, “two months to stroll on foot from Rome to Byzan­tium. For those who had a horse, it could solely take you a month.”

You may view the map in a larg­er for­mat right here. And if you happen to fol­low this hyperlink and ship Tru­wager­skoy a couple of bucks, he can electronic mail you a crisp PDF for print­ing. Discover extra centered, relat­ed maps by Tru­wager­skoy proper right here:

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