Updates and additions to published content of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places between 12 October 2020 and 4 April 2023. What's new since 2.3 (12 October 2020): 2,655 new and 10,222 updated place resources (see data/changelogs/release.html for details) data/bibliography/zotero.csv: The complete bibliographic library cited in references throughout the dataset. data/changelogs/: Monthly changelogs in HTML format since 2009. data/data_quality: Some metrics. data/gis: CSV files tested in QGIS (likely better than the original CSV package, which is now deprecated, for most use cases). Deprecation of legacy CSV export in data/csv. The new data/gis package is likely better for your purposes. Overview This is a package of data derived from the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. It is used for archival and redistribution purposes and is likely to be less up-to-date than the live data at https://pleiades.stoa.org. Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license. It publishes not just for individual human users, but also for search engines and for the widening array of computational research and visualization tools that support humanities teaching and research. Pleiades is a continuously published scholarly reference work for the 21st century. We embrace the new paradigm of citizen humanities, encouraging contributions from any knowledgeable person and doing so in a context of pervasive peer review. Pleiades welcomes your contribution, no matter how small, and we have a number of useful tasks suitable for volunteers of every interest.

Pleiades has received significant, periodic support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 2006. Grant numbers: HK-230973-15, PA-51873-06, PX-50003-08, and PW-50557-10. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.