The Pelagios Map is an interactive map of the Roman Empire. You can scroll around the Empire, zoom in and out, and see both natural features and manmade ones. It marks a wide variety of sites and would be very useful for tracking Horace’s travels or Pliny’s activities during the eruption of Vesuvius. (via the Smithsonian Blog)
Thursday Resource: Wordle
January 17, 2013
Wordle is a website that can take any text you enter (like this selection from Caesar) and make a word cloud out of it. More