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Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman world?
Posted: 2012-06-12 09:32am
by hongi
http://orbis.stanford.edu/
Quite frankly, brilliant.
Re: A map for calculating travel time in the Roman world.
Posted: 2012-06-12 09:36am
by Spoonist
I really like how they source it
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-12 01:10pm
by Ziggy Stardust
Really cool stuff. I am curious to look into more detail at the way they weight certain factors.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-12 02:45pm
by Thanas
It is pretty good and well sourced, not sure how much help it will be in field work though. On its own though, I can heartily recommend it.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-12 03:35pm
by ray245
Thanas wrote:It is pretty good and well sourced, not sure how much help it will be in field work though. On its own though, I can heartily recommend it.
It would certainly be useful for people making RTS games and mods.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-12 04:01pm
by Thanas
Sure, but neither RTS nor mods are professional historian work.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-13 04:51am
by Irbis
Thanas wrote:Sure, but neither RTS nor mods are professional historian work.
*shrug* Is there reason why they can't use genuine historian work? Maybe I look at it wrong, but some Total War mods, especially
Rome and
Empire used huge amount of research and amazingly detailed work by fans.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-13 05:45am
by Thanas
Yes, they did and I love some of them to death (IFBD, RTR etc. may be my favorite RTS ever). Modding however is not something a professional historian would do for a living, which was my point.
And now I sound like I hate the orbis project, when in fact I think it is a great effort.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-13 11:44am
by Ziggy Stardust
The only use I can see it having for any "legitimate" historical research is in some theoretical case where person/group/legion/whatever was in place A on some date and place B on another date, but the records of the A->B travel are missing, then I could see using this to be helpful in coming up with some alternative models for the trip as a precursor to field or in-depth archival research or something.
But maybe this is a stretch.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-13 11:46am
by Thanas
^Yeah.
Or to quickly make graphics illustrating the possible routes from Point A > B. It is really good for that -a great achievement in itself.
Re: Want to know how long it took to travel in the Roman wor
Posted: 2012-06-13 01:35pm
by ray245
Thanas wrote:^Yeah.
Or to quickly make graphics illustrating the possible routes from Point A > B. It is really good for that -a great achievement in itself.
That would be a great teaching tool though. It would certainly help new students understand the scale of the Ancient world and how much effort it takes for any army to march from place to place.