An Atlas of Ancient Geography: Biblical and Classical

ISBN-13: 9781848853522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

William Smith

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Published to complement his Greek and Roman dictionaries, An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical by Sir William Smith is the rarest and most visually compelling of the volumes. Produced to the highest standard by the leading mapmaker of the day, the maps - large-scale, small-scale, historical, topographical, multiple city plans, and other insets - are clear, detailed, intricately colored works of art. The Atlas provides the first complete set of maps of the ancient world, both classical and biblical. A full index of names and places, both ancient and modern, accompanies each of the larger maps. For each map, there is also an accompanying text, giving sources and authorities for them. This handsome edition is introduced by Richard Talbert, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and one of the world's foremost scholars of the cartography of the ancient world.

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Introduction by Richard Talbert 1. Geographical Systems of the Ancients (i) The World According to Homerus (ii) The World According to Hecataeus (iii) The World According to Herodotus (iv) The World According to Ephorus (v) The World According to Timosthenes (vi) The World According to Erathosthenes (vii) The World According to Strabo (viii) The World According to Pomponius Mela (ix) The World Accordig to Dionysius Periegetes (x) The World According to Ptolemy (xi) The World According to the Geographer of Ravenna (xii) Tabula Ventorum 2. The World as Known to the Ancients 3. Empires of the Baylonians, Lydians, Medes, and Persians 4. Empire of Alexander the Great 5. Kingdoms of the Successors of Alexander the Great: Part I (i) After the Division at Babylon (323) and Triparadisus (321) (ii) After the Battle of Ipsus (301) (iii) In the Middle of the Third Century 6. Kingdoms of the Successors of Alexander the great: Part II (i) In the Middle of the Third Century (ii) Empire of the Parthians 7.The Roman Empire in its Greatest Extent 8. The Roman Empires After its Division into the Eastern and Western Empires 9. Greek and Phoenician Colonies (i) Italia Inferior, Magna Graeca, at the Time of the Peloponnesian War (ii) Sicily at the Time of the Peloponnesian War (iii) Syracuse (iv) Agrigentum (v) Bosporus Cimmerius (vi) Chersonesus Heracleotica (vii) The Western Coast of Libya 10. Britannia (i) The Wall of Hadrian 11. Hispania 12. Gallia (i) Gallia at the Time of Caesar (ii) Insula Batavorum 13.Germania, Rhaetia, Noricum (i) Germani Magna, According to Ptolemy 14. Thracia, Moesia, Illyria, Pannonia, Dacia (i) Bosporus Thracius 15. Historical Maps of Italy, Sardinia, Corsica (i) Italy before the Immigration of the Galli in the Sixth Century BC (ii) Vetus Latium from 384 BC (iii) Italy at the beginning of the First Punic War, 264 BC (iv) Miltary Map of Italy about 150 BC (v) Italy in the First Century BC, after the Social War (91-88) and before the Battle of Actium (31) (vi) Italy Divided into Eleven Regions by Augustus (vii) Italiae Doecesis Divided into Seventeen provinces, in the Fourth Century after Christ 16. Italia Superior 17. Italia Inferior. Sicilia (i) Sinus Paestanus 18. Plan of Rome in the Times of the Emperors (i) Rome during the Republic (ii) The Forum before the Time of Julius Caesar (iii) The Forum Ramanum under the Empire and the Imperial Fora 19. Environs of Rome 20. Greece after the Doric Migration (i) Plan of Troy (ii) Greece in the Heroic Age 21. Greece at the Time of the Persian Wars 22. Greece in the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War (i) Maps of Towns Tributary to the Athenians 23. Greece at the Time of the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues 24. Northern Greece - Hellas, Epirus, Thessalia, Macedonia 25. Central Greece - Attica,Boeotia, Locris, Phocis, Doris, Malis (i) Plan of Athens (ii) Acropolis (iii) The Harbours of Athens (iv) The Environs of Athens (v) Eleusis (vi) Marathon 26. Peloponnesus (i) Plan of Sparta 27. Coasts and Islands of the Aegaean Sea 28. Historical Maps of Asia Minor (i) At the Time of the Persian Kings (ii) After the battle of Magnesia (iii) Asia Minor and the Adjacent Countries at the Time of Mithridates the Great (iv) Asia Minor at te Time after Diocletian 29. Asia Minor 30. Arabia and Aethiopia 31. India (i) India Trans Gangem (ii) Indorum Provincia Pontepotamica, at the Time of A