iOS Map-oholics: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

I ran into this in the app store. It sat in my wish list, since $20 just seemed WAY too much for a $400 atlas (well, gee, I'm a Logosian used to paying CP prices).

But after reading http://community.logos.com/forums/t/85434.aspx I went ahead and blew my next 2 hours allowance.

Wow, what a deal! The wiki article lays out the contents. One I quickly saw was a map of dioces (sp?), etc. I haven't tried Palestine yet, though Switzerland seems to be a real winner (per the Amazon review).

I'd put this in the Suggestion forum, especially for the Noet/Logos5 combo, but I'm not sure Princeton would go for it. But it sure would be a nice fit in Noet.

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DMB

OK, I've used it now for almost 2 minutes, so now I'm an expert.

- Index is nice since it scans for partial strings in the locations (e.g. reth will bring up Nazareth)

- Only crashed it twice; I probably ran around the cosmos way too fast ... mercurial.

- Depth in Palestine is about 1 map (in 2 parts) essentially from the 1st century

- I really liked the topos and roads (recognizing the roads are touch and go). This is the first I've seen where the main entry to Nazareth was from the northwest (as you'd expect).

EDIT (minutes later):

- A few of the gazateer entries (locations) land in western Turkey (apparently the default error location)

- The Ephasus maps show the location of land subsidence by period (if you've been there, you didn't see the ocean)

- Already has been handy while reading my Logos Midianite pottery book (yes, Logos DOES have such and quite good)

- And major bonus: I'd always wondered just how the Ethiopian eunuch got his chariot back to Ethiopia (no Holiday Inns, you know and where did his horses eat?)

Charlene

Hi Denise,

Where was this for $20?

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598792#Comment_598792

I hope I didn't confuse by only putting iOS (I was trying not to advertise).

It's in the itunes.apple.com site (iPad; I didn't try iPhone). Basically about 400 megabytes, so not too bad.

Charlene

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598797#Comment_598797

Thanks...since I don't have an IPad, that is why the "IOS" went over my head! [:)] It's a shame it's only for the IPad, as I have wanted this book!

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598799#Comment_598799

Since it's a fairly recent app and very 'Kindle' looking, I'd assume it might show up on the Google platform too.

Surprisingly, the only reason I have my iPad is geological mapping. I wrote to the maker of Mancos and pleaded with him. But he wouldn't budge. So I bought the cellular iPad just for Mancos.

I'm not sure I'd buy an iPad for Barrington! But it's worth several hours of browsing. I didn't know there were two walls in England with communities further north(I guess maybe Heathrow airport might have shown both).

DHG

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598802#Comment_598802

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by Princeton University Press
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/barrington-atlas-greek-roman/id767575157?mt=8

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598780#Comment_598780

Nice. Now I just need an iPad...

- Depth in Palestine is about 1 map (in 2 parts) essentially from the 1st century

That's a real shame.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/598802#Comment_598802

This is an older thread, but merits repeating 8 years later.

Barrington Atlas comes up in discussions of the Roman world, and 'where things were' ... it's one of the opinion sources. Most recently (for me), it was an authoritative source on guessing where Derbe was.

On Amazon, the atlas is hardback only, and $300+

But Apple/iOS continues to offer the atlas app at the low-low price of $20. And apparently, it can run on the Mac M1.