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Homeric Atlas

Where the episodes of the Iliad and the Odyssey might have happened — and how strong the case is for each answer.

v1.0 · Aug 2026Sources: Homer, ancient geographers, excavation reports and named modern scholarship

An interactive, probabilistic map of Homeric geography. Every location is classed as an accepted, plausible, speculative or mythical identification, and every claim is scored against a published 0–12 rubric with its sources attached. Places, episodes, routes and the methodology each have their own indexable URL, and the whole dataset is downloadable as JSON and GeoJSON.

This atlas maps claims, not facts. Nothing here asserts that a Homeric episode happened at a place: it records who proposed the identification, on what evidence, and how strong that case is.

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Places
42
Identifications
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Episodes
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Routes
246
Sources cited
IdentificationAcceptedPlausibleSpeculativeMythical· Dot size = confidence score

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34 places

Not located

The poem places these outside the mappable world and no hypothesis locates them, so they carry no coordinates at all.

The house of HadesThe Wandering Rocks

Accepted

A real site with mainstream scholarly and archaeological consensus.

Plausible

A real place proposed by mainstream scholarship, contested or unproven.

Speculative

An identification resting on a minority reading, a single proponent or later tradition.

Mythical

The poem places it outside the mappable world. No external tradition overrides that.

PlacesBrowse all placesEpisodesBrowse all episodesRoutesBrowse all routesMethodologyRead the methodology

Reusable data

The whole atlas as machine-readable data, CORS-open and free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Full corpus (JSON)Places (JSON)Episodes (JSON)Routes (JSON)Places (GeoJSON)Routes (GeoJSON)

GeoJSON carries one feature per identification, with its class, its rubric score and its canonical URL in the properties — so a map client can style by confidence without asking us what a number means.

CC BY 4.0 — reuse freely, credit the author, link the canonical URL.