Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul

<p>This study models malaria risks for travelers on ancient Roman roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, verification and validation against available pre-eradication data, overlay of ancient Roman road data, and an initial case-study application to the journeys of the Apostle Paul, as narrated in the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles (Acts). The project is intentionally cross-disciplinary in bringing the technical capabilities of GIS to the task of evaluating nuanced textual sources for historical reconstruction.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Browning Jr, Daniel C

Contributors dc:contributor

• George T Raber
• David M. Cochran, Jr.
• David H. Holt

• Malaria
• Roman Roads
• Asia Minor
• Paul
• malaria risk
• ancient disease
• Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
• Biblical Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Disease Modeling
• Geographic Information Sciences
• Parasitic Diseases

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/728

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1780