Patrick Callahan of Fordham offers an impressive map showing the origins of the Argonauts (and he has taken it a step further with color-coding):
View Argonautika Book 1 Catalogue of Heroes in a larger map
As he notes, “Hasty work, but I wanted to confirm my suspicion that the catalogue was not wholly arbitrary in the order of heroes (they form a map of Hellas, going in geographic order).” That’s exciting stuff.
And I’ve just spent some time putting together a map of Aeneas’ journey from Troy to Laurentum. It still needs work, but it’s a start:
View The Voyage of Aeneas in a larger map
I really have high hopes for this this, and I would love to see some more.
A few years back I did something similar for the Catalogue of Ships (although not color-coded, very slick) and a few poems by Statius and Martial.
The .kmz files are available here, if anyone is interested: http://www.haverford.edu/classics/courses/omni/geolocation.php
Enjoying the blog, as always.
Bret
Bret,
Not to highlight my own ignorance, but thank you for pointing out that these maps can be saved as .kmz. And thanks for the link!