Explore the world of the ancient Greeks
Mapping 1200 years of Greek literature to the cities they founded, the peoples they encountered, and the monuments they left behind, from Spain to India.
The ProjectExplore the riddles of Europe’s ancient literary culture
The texts that shaped western thought and aspiration, together in one platform.
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The history, mythology, and literature of Greece, taken up by the Roman Empire, shaped the development of European and American culture. ToposText is a free tool, a mobile app and website, for going back to the primary sources and historic roots of western civilization, and in particular a tool for students and travelers eager to experience the ancient world through its surviving texts.
Our Places
7237 mapped historic places and archaeological sites from Spain to India, attested by 265,900 ancient references, many with descriptions and links to Wikipedia/Wikidata, Pleiades, Archaeology in Greece, and other sources. 250 monuments in Athens, 209 in Rome.
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Our Texts
819 ancient texts in clean digital form, all the key surviving works of history, mythology, and geography, some of them online in English for the first time, with links to the Greek or Latin. For a bonus, Col. William Leake's travels in Northern Greece and the More.
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Our People
An index of 19,750 proper names – people, gods, festivals, animals, artworks – attested by 429,170 ancient references and linked where possible to Wikipedia and/or Wikidata.
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A huge library of ancient texts married to a detailed gazetteer, available on this web site and as a free mobile application for iOS and Android smart phones and tablets.
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PLACES
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Education / Reference tool for Greek civilization
The largest, most diverse set of ancient texts in English on the web, indexed to offer the primary sources for almost any ancient place or personality a highly detailed archaeological site map for Greece.
Accurate coordinates for thousands of Greek historical sites
Each site indexed to the ancient literary sources that mention it.
A huge, free, portable library of classical texts in English
Texts and places stored on-device – no internet access necessary.
Location-aware display of site information.
Recent archaeological information on many sites.
"ToposText is my dream of how one should be a traveler in Greece"
Brady Kiesling
Our Partners
ToposText is made possible by the creativity and hard work of dozens of people and organizations that have made high-quality information available for public use. In addition to our sponsor, the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus, with its Travelogues project and other treasures, we network with the following resources for ancient languages, literature, history, archaeology, and ancient topography:
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brady@topostext.orgTestimonials
I use it, I show it to everyone I know as,a shining example of how technology eases and expands our connection with the past. It's an amazing tool to scratch the surface of the palimpsest we live in!
I have used it a number of times! I love the references to the ancient texts! A wonderful way to explore new sites, too! It is like having multiple reference books in one place. Thank you!.
A great app and likely to turn those archeology-curious into archeology buffs..
Thanks for your excellent site!!.
Congratulations! This is a very exciting app. It brings ancient travel writers to life! It makes them relevant.
Thank you for ToposText! A very useful information resource with a user-friendly interface. I recommend it to my students, who find it much easier to use than Pleiades..
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