ORBIS
- Responsibility
- Principal Investigator, Walter Scheidel ; Technical Lead, Elijah Meeks ; Web development, Karl Grossner.
- Uniform Title
- ORBIS (Stanford University)
- Publication
- [Stanford, Calif.] : [Stanford University] 2012-
- Physical description
- 1 online resource : HTML, color maps
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Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Scheidel, Walter, 1966-
- Meeks, Elijah.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World" reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity
Subjects
- Subjects
- Transportation > Rome > Maps.
- Rome > Economic conditions > Maps.
- Rome > Maps.
- Database topics
- Ancient Greek and Roman Culture
- Medieval Studies
- Geography
- History
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2012
- Title variation
- Title on home page: ORBIS : the Stanford geospatial network model of the Roman world
- Note
- Title from HTML title metatag.