#maps #map #rome #roman #roads #subway

A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.

Sasha Trubestkoy https://sashamaps.net made a really cool map which shows the Roman roads as a subway map, awesome!

As he says:

"Creating this required far more research than I had expected—there is not a single consistent source that was particularly good for this. Huge shoutout to: Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary (found a full PDF online but lost the url).

The lines are a combination of actual, named roads (like the Via Appia or Via Militaris) as well as roads that do not have a known historic name (in which case I creatively invented some names). Skip to the “Creative liberties taken” section for specifics."

If you think this would make a cool poster, https://www.paypal.me/SashaTrubetskoy/ follow this link and send him a few bucks. He’ll email you a crisp PDF for printing!