The Roads of Historic Rome Visualized within the Model of Fashionable Subway Maps

Sasha Tru­guess­skoy, for­mer­ly an underneath­grad 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, Tru­guess­skoy’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 will take, Tru­guess­skoy tells us, “two months to stroll on foot from Rome to Byzan­tium. When you had a horse, it will solely take you a month.”

You possibly can view the map in a larg­er for­mat right here. And when you fol­low this hyperlink and ship Tru­guess­skoy a couple of bucks, he can e-mail you a crisp PDF for print­ing. Discover extra centered, relat­ed maps by Tru­guess­skoy proper right here:

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