Atlas of Classical History: Revised Edition

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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. 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