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Re:Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire by supernova87a on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:22PM (#23787183)
What an impressive set of maps, and such work involved! Really impressive.

I was amused by the "future roads" dashed lines -- thinking about how even for an empire like that, there were unfinished things after 500-600 years.

Also, how the ends of the subway lines in Scotland, etc. were really the end of the world for them. You wouldn't want to be posted there compared to the warm sunny home of the Mediterranean.

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Re:Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire by ch4s3 on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:29AM (#23788160)
By the time they were post guy in Scotland, those guys would have been Gauls or Brittons, with a general who had maybe been to Italy once. You may enjoy SPQR by Mary Beard if this is your sort of thing.
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