Maps for reading / Greece & Rome

Ancient Greece · north

Mountains, rivers, cities, and regions of northern Greece give a geographical frame to Greek history and the Greek homelands named in epic.

Period shown
Ancient regional reference; not a single dated political snapshot
Published
1911 · Atlas pages 10–11
Suggested use
Grades 6–12; adult-led place-finding for grades 4–5.

All grade-picker settings retain access to this map. Suggested grades describe support needs, not a restriction.

A 1911 map of northern ancient Greece showing mountains, regions, settlements, and adjoining seas.
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Historical judgment

Read this map carefully

This is a retrospective 1911 reference map. It is not a map of Troy, a Bronze Age political survey, or a verified route for Achilles. Spellings and some identifications reflect the atlas’s time.

No separate drawing date is established here; 1911 is the verified atlas publication date, not the period depicted.

At the table or in class

A question to begin

Find Thessaly, Boeotia, and a mountain barrier. How might relief complicate travel or help explain the independence of neighboring communities?

First read the map title, legend, scale, and inset headings. Then name what the map can show—and what it cannot.

Source & public-domain record

Atlas & maker
William R. Shepherd (atlas compiler); Velhagen & Klasing (printed credit; no individual draughtsman identified). Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. Pages 10–11. A separate drawing date is not established by this record.
Source institution
University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Exact original scan · Edition catalog · Original title page · Hosted title-page evidence.
Rights
Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired). This exact sheet is listed in the archive’s 1911 edition and was published in the United States in 1911, as independently confirmed by the scanned New York title page. Its underlying publication is before 1931 and outside US copyright in 2026. The archive states that its public-domain map scans may be downloaded and reused without permission; this original atlas item is not flagged as a separately copyrighted modern map. Only faithful resizing/format conversion has been applied to previews; the downloadable scan is unchanged. Archive reuse statement · 2026 US copyright-term reference · Additional Commons item record. US public-domain assessment, not a worldwide legal guarantee. Check local law when reusing outside the United States.
Credit
From William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911). Scan courtesy of University of Texas Libraries.
Download integrity
Unchanged source JPG · 1925 × 1543 pixels · 1,036,865 bytes.
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Reviewed 2026-11-06. Download complete provenance manifest.

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