Reference
Maps
Reference maps of the ancient world — Greece, Athens, Sparta, the Persian Empire, Alexander's conquests, the Roman Republic and Empire, Egypt and the Mediterranean — with political context and key locations.
A reference layer of historical maps — static, source-based, and cross-linked to the figures, texts and timelines they illuminate. Each map page sets out the political context, the key locations, and the related reading. Companion to the timelines.
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Ancient Greece Map
A reference map of ancient Greece — the mountainous, sea-girt world of the city-states, from the Peloponnese to the Aegean, in which the classical civilization grew.
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Athens Map
A reference map of Athens and Attica — the city, its port at the Piraeus, the Long Walls that joined them, and the territory of the Athenian democracy.
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Sparta Map
A reference map of Spartan territory — Laconia and the subject land of Messenia, the agricultural base whose enslaved population sustained the Spartan citizen-soldier.
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Persian Empire Map
A reference map of the Achaemenid Persian Empire at its height — from the Aegean to the Indus, the first great multi-ethnic world-empire, governed through its satrapies.
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Alexander Empire Map
A reference map of the empire of Alexander the Great — the route of his conquests from Macedon to the Indus, and the largest dominion the ancient world had seen.
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Roman Republic Map
A reference map of ancient Italy, the heartland from which the Roman Republic grew to master the Mediterranean — its peoples, roads and colonies.
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Roman Empire Map
A reference map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent under Trajan in 117 CE — from Britain to Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean an inland Roman sea.
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Egypt Map
A reference map of ancient Egypt — the narrow ribbon of the Nile valley and Delta, with the empire of the New Kingdom reaching into Nubia and the Levant.
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Mediterranean World Map
A reference map of the ancient Mediterranean — the sea around which the classical civilizations grew, here showing the spread of Greek and Phoenician colonies.