In "Greek and Roman Maps", O. A. W. Dilke follows the development of map-making skills, beginning in Babylonia and Egypt, through the contributions of Greek scientists and Roman administrators and surveyors, to the Age of Discovery. He provides examples of the full range of Greek and Roman maps, including town and building plans, itineraries and road maps, sea itineraries, and maps in art form.
"It is an extremely useful book, packed with information, simply and succinctly expressed... there is no doubt that it was Greek theoretical thinking and a growing knowledge of geography, combined with the practical demands imposed upon the administrators of the Roman Empire, which led to the development and widespread use of maps more or less as we know them." - Mary E. Hoskins Walbank, "Echos du monde classique".
Author(s): Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
Series: Aspects of Greek and Roman Life
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 1985
Language: English
Pages: 224
I. The Predecessors
II. Evidence from Ancient Greece
III. Agrippa
IV. Geographical Writers
V. Ptolemy and his Predecessor Marinus
VI. Land Surveying
VII. Roman Stone Plans
VIII. Road Maps and Land Itineraries
IX. Periploi
X. Maps in Art Form
XI. The Development of Ptolemaic Maps
XII. From Antiquity to the Renaissance
App. I. Cosmographia Iulii Caesaris
App. II. Pliny, Natural History (vi. 211-20)
App. III. Data on the Orange Cadasters
App. IV. Ptolemy, Geography (ii.3), Manuscript Variants on British Place-Names
App. V. Peutinger Table: Categories of Places
App. VI. Greek and Roman Words for 'Map'
App. VII. Ptolemy Manuscripts with Maps
