Ancient Greek World or Hellas circa 550 BCE

    Caption: Ancient Greece (which includes the Greek colonies) and Phoenicia and the Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean Basin, about 550 BCE.

    Click on the map for a larger version.

    The ancient Greeks called their country Hellas and themselves Hellenes----and why don't we just do that?---blame the Romans---see Wikipedia: Name of Greece.

    Selected locations: including cities, geographical features, islands, landmarks, poleis, political divisions, temples, tourist sights, towns, et cetera, with associated favorite persons of Classical Antiquity (AKA Greco-Roman Antiquity):

    1. Abdera: Democritus (c.460--c.370 BCE), Protagoras (c.490--c.420 BCE).
    2. Alexandria / Alexandria (historical): Cleopatra (69--30 BCE), Eratosthenes (c.276--c.195 BCE), Euclid (fl. 300 BCE) Hero of Alexandria (c.10--c.70 CE), Hypatia (c.360--415 CE), Ktesibios (c.285--c.222), Ptolemy (c.100--c.170 CE).
    3. Athens / Athens (classical): Aspasia (c.470--c.400 BCE), Euripides (c.480--c.406 BCE), Kleisthenes (fl. 510 BCE), Solon (c.638--c.558 BCE).
    4. Delphi. Maps: Delphi schematic: not bad, Dephi: Temenos of Apollo: just the Temenos, Delphi: artist conception Delphi region topographic map, Dephi region physical map. etc.
    5. Miletus: Anaximander (c.610--c.546 BCE), Anaximenes (c.585--c.528 BCE), Thales (c.624--c.546 BCE).
    6. Maps: Greek and Phoenician colonies c. 550 BCE better than above?, Athenian empire c.450 BCE, good, Greece 431 BCE: good, Aegean Sea: good, Greece physical, Cyclades: good, etc.
    7. Rome / Rome (historical): Caius Musonious Rufus (c.25--c.100 CE), Catullus (c.84--c.54), Julia Caesar (c.76--54), Julius Caesar (100--44 BCE), Lucretius (c.99--c.55 BCE), Pervigilium Veneris author (2nd--5th century CE)?, Virgil (70--19 BCE).
    8. Syracuse, Sicily: Archimedes (c.287--c.212 BCE).

    Credit/Permission: Willliam R. Shepherd (1871--1934), Historical Atlas (1923,1926) / Public domain.
    Image links in order of increasing directness: (1) Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, (2) Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps, (3) Historical Atlas (1923,1926), William R. Shepherd (1871--1934), (4) Greek and Phoenician Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin, about 550 B.C. (350K) [p.12] [1926 ed.] : scroll down ∼ 10% in "(3)".
    Local file: local link: map_hellas_circa_550_BCE.html.
    File: Maps file: map_hellas_circa_550_BCE.html.