Welcome to Pleiades

Pleiades gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create and share historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World in digital form. You don't need a login to start searching, reading and using Pleiades information; just visit our home page to get started.

How to join

People around the world can benefit from your involvement in Pleiades. Joining is easy, and once you're a community member you can help by contributing better coordinates for sites; identifying placenames in ancient sources; writing essays about ancient places; adding links to good websites, books and articles; and even writing entirely new entries.

To join the community, please send an email to pleiades.admin@nyu.edu requesting a Pleiades username and password. Be sure to include your full name, a valid email address, any institutional affiliation and a brief statement as to your reasons for wanting to join.

Please note that requesting and using a Pleiades account constitutes your agreement to all terms of the PleiadesContributorAgreement.

Staying informed

After emailing the Pleiades administrator, please join our discussion and announcements group: http://groups.google.com/a/nyu.edu/group/pleiades-community-group. It's open to non-members, too.

Pleiades has a blog to which we post items of interest to site members and the digital classics and humanities communities.

Other ways to help

If you're not ready to join the community but have some specific bit of information or opinion to offer, we have options for you too. If you have an Open ID you can login with it and:

• offer comments on place and name resources or 
• rate the relative accuracy and importance of name variants and alternate locations