Great news, "Electrum Magazine - Why The Past Matters" has published an article describing the Polis-Inventory app! Freely available to the public, Electrum Magazine aims to trace discernible historical patterns from ancient to modern cultures and to this end publishes articles discussing the Classics,
What's in a location? A lot, as it turns out! Summary A review of the spatial distribution of poleis, region-by-region, illuminated outliers from their assigned region that warrented closer inspection. In addition, a
Great news, "Electrum Magazine - Why The Past Matters" has published an article describing the Polis-Inventory app! Freely available to the public, Electrum Magazine aims to trace discernible historical patterns from ancient to
We are pleased to report Polis Inventory Version 1.6 was just released. Enhancements include: Filter Poleis by Region: The Inventory assigns all 1035 to one of 46 regions, including one small group
Upon first discovery of An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Hansen & Neilsen one is easily excited to find such a treasure trove of information about these ancient Greek communities. Quickly,
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis catalogs 1035 poleis. What may come as a surprise is many of these ancient cities are not definitively located or are not located at all. The
The Polis-Inventory app maps the 1035 poleis superimposed upon modern digital satellite images. A user may explore the map spatially by panning and zooming. Selecting a specific polis presents a summary of the
The data for the 1035 poleis mapped in the Polis Inventory app comes directly from the website polis.stanford.edu, managed by the Stanford University Classics Department. After the Inventory was published, other
The Inventory, as I refer to it, is the inspiration for the Polis Inventory app. Titled as "An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis", by M.H Hansen and T. Nielsen, it is