Maps for reading / Greece & Rome
Ancient Greece · south
Find Athens, Sparta, the Peloponnese, and the sea passages that connect Greek communities. A Crete inset extends the regional view.
- Period shown
- Ancient regional reference, including the Peloponnese and islands
- Published
- 1911 · Atlas pages 14–15
- Suggested use
- Grades 6–12; younger learners can compare land and sea with an adult.
All grade-picker settings retain access to this map. Suggested grades describe support needs, not a restriction.
Historical judgment
Read this map carefully
Names and identifications follow a 1911 historical atlas. Places mentioned in a poem may be historical, uncertain, or fictional; this sheet does not establish Odysseus’s complete itinerary.
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 Athens and Sparta, then compare a sea route with an overland route between their regions. What geographical constraints might a historian ask about?
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 14–15. 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 · 1920 × 1539 pixels · 844,874 bytes.
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Reviewed 2026-11-06. Download complete provenance manifest.