Ancient world through their eyes

Pleiades-linked places explicitly cited to ancient authors · modern representative locations.

Compare the explicit place references currently encoded in Pleiades for Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Julius Caesar, Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy and Solinus. Select an author to inspect their Pleiades-linked geographical horizon, filter by book or work and feature type, toggle persistent place labels, and follow every Pleiades identifier to its canonical gazetteer record.

Methodological note. This is a conservative Pleiades-linked proxy rather than an exhaustive reconstruction of everything an author named, knew or imagined. Map positions are modern Pleiades representative points; extended or uncertain ancient features may be simplified to a single point.