Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece’s Bronze Age to Rome’s fall in the West.
This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual grasp of the spatial dimension, a vital aspect for understanding history. Users gain insight into the formative roles of physical landscape – seas, rivers, mountains, deserts – in Mediterranean peoples’ development. The maps in all their variety of scope, scale and colour offer an absorbing means to track the growth of states on the ground, especially their relationships, conflicts, urbanization, communications and cultures. Each map is enriched by readily identifiable symbols and concise accompanying texts, as well as recommendations for further reading. With its vast geographical sweep in a compact format, this book is a comprehensive reference work primarily aimed at non-specialists.
With updated text and thoroughly revised maps now presented in colour, the Atlas of Classical History remains an essential reference volume for all those interested in the civilizations of ancient Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, as well as for students and scholars of ancient Greek and Roman history.
Author(s): Benet Salway, Richard Talbert, Lindsay Holman
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 263
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Key
Contributors (with their current institutional affiliations)
Maps
Battles, Cities, Regions, Shrines to around 300 BCE: Locator
Egypt and the Near East, 1200–500 BCE
Troy: Citadel
Troy: Lower Town
Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece and the Aegean
Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete
Neolithic and Bronze Age Cyprus
Knossos
Mycenae: Citadel
Mycenae Outside the Citadel
Homer's World
Mainland Greece in Homer's Epics
Iron Age Greece
Greek Colonization, 800–500 BCE
Archaic Greece
Persian Empire, 550–330 BCE
Persepolis
Marathon, 490 BCE
Persian Wars
Thermopylae, 480 BCE: Ephialtes' Route
Artemision, 480 BCE
Salamis, 480 BCE
Plataea, 479 BCE
Greece and the Aegean (Hellespont inset)
Classical Greece
Cimmerian Bosphorus
Olympia
Attica
Athens
Classical Athens (Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE)
Roman Athens
Delphi
Sparta
Miletus
Priene
Halicarnassus
Akragas
Greek and Punic Sicily
Athenian Empire
Greek Dialects around 450 BCE
Peloponnesian War, 431–404 BCE (Sicily inset)
Pylos/Sphacteria, 425 BCE
Syracuse (and Athenian Siege, 415–413 BCE)
Explorers
Anabasis (Spring 400 to Winter 400/399 BCE)
Leuctra, 371 BCE
Second Athenian League
Chaeronea, 338 BCE
Growth of Macedonian Power, 359–336 BCE
Alexander's Campaigns, 334–323 BCE
Granicus River, 334 BCE
Issus, 333 BCE
Tyre, 332 BCE
Gaugamela, 331 BCE
Hydaspes River, 326 BCE
Alexandria Oxiana (Ai Khanoum)
Alexandria
Hellenistic World: Kingdoms
Hellenistic World: Aegean
Hellenistic World: Asia Minor
Hellenistic World: Syria–Egypt
Pergamum
Delos City
Delos Centre
Delos Island
Etruria and Etruscan Expansion
Early Italy and its Neighbours
Peoples of Italy, and their Languages to the First Century CE
Latium, 600–300 BCE
Campania
Roman Expansion in Italy to 241 BCE
Cosa
Rome by 300 BCE
Roman Colonization in Italy to the Time of Augustus (Campania inset)
Second Punic War (First Punic War inset)
Cannae, 216 BCE
Zama, 202 BCE
Roman Campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, 218–133 BCE
Numantia: Roman Siege, 133 BCE
Numantia: Region
Rome in the Late Republic
Rome's Empire around 60 BCE
Roman Campaigns, 58–30 BCE
Actium, 31 BCE
Augusta Praetoria (Aosta)
Italy from Alps to Campania (including Corsica)
Italy from Apulia to Bruttium
Sicily and Sardinia
Rome's Empire and Beyond: Locator
Rome at the Death of Augustus, 14 CE
Environs of Imperial Rome
Ostia
Portus
Second Battle of Cremona, 69 CE
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Italian Towns with Alimentary Schemes
Rome at the Death of Trajan, 117 CE
Rome's Empire around 60 CE
Britain
Hadrian's Wall
Antonine Wall
Iberian Peninsula
Vipasca
Thamugadi (Timgad)
Africa
Lepcis Magna
Africa Proconsularis and Numidia
Cyrene
Lutetia Parisiorum (Paris)
Gaul
Germany
Rhine-Danube Limes, 40–260 CE
Danube–Black Sea
Greece
Crete
Cyprus
Aphrodisias
Asia Minor
Paul's Journeys
Syria–Persian Gulf
Antioch (Syria)
Dura
Jerusalem/Aelia Capitolina, Second–Third Centuries CE
Jerusalem on Madaba Map
Judaea
Masada (and Roman Siege, 73 CE)
Egypt
Arabia
India
Rome's Empire around 211 CE
Circuit of the Roman Empire by Aurelius Gaius, 285–299 CE
Etesian Winds and Sea Currents
Sea Routes in Diocletian's Edict on Prices
Rome at the Death of Constantine, 337 CE
Split
Constantinople
Rome's Empire around 314 CE
Christianity by the Early Fourth Century
Roman World on Two Portable Sundials
Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, 370–500 CE
Roman Empire and Successor Kingdoms around 530 CE
Further Reading
Gazetteer
