Mapping the Classical World Since 1869: Past and Future Directions, SCS Annual Meeting 2019 Panel Online

SCS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 4, 2019

Invited Sesquicentennial Panel

A 1980 APA/SCS committee report (Research Tools for the Classics) was correct on both counts to declare cartography at that date “an area of extremely great importance, where the state of our tools is utterly disastrous.” The panel briefly discusses the disappointing lack of progress made during the previous past century, and advances reasons for its limitations (Papers #1, 2). The main focus of the five papers, however, is on the transformation successfully achieved since around 1980, and still ongoing.

Organizer & chair: Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1 Greek and Roman Mapping Georgia Irby, College of William and Mary, VA

2 Modern Mapping Before Digitization   Richard Talbert

3 What Difference Has Digitization Made ?   Tom Elliott, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

4 What Has the Ancient World Mapping Center Done for Us ?   Lindsay Holman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Center Director)

5 Rome’s Marble Plan: Progress and Prospects   Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis