A School Atlas of Classical Geography

Hispania, Gallia, Greece and Italy, with Athens, Marathon and Thermopylae placed on the larger map, make up this Victorian c...

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Hispania, Gallia, Greece and Italy, with Athens, Marathon and Thermopylae placed on the larger map, make up this Victorian classroom guide to the ancient world. Alexander Keith Johnston prepared A School Atlas of Classical Geography, published by William Blackwood & Sons in 1855, to accompany the study of Greek and Roman history and literature. Regional sheets carry Latin headings, and wider maps follow Alexander's empire and the Roman world, with local plans and insets for particular places, all reconstructions of antiquity drawn from learned interpretation.

Hispania, Gallia, Greece and Italy, with Athens, Marathon and Thermopylae placed on the larger map, make up this Victorian classroom guide to the ancient world. Alexander Keith Johnston prepared A School Atlas of Classical Geography, published by William Blackwood & Sons in 1855, to accompany the study of Greek and Roman history and literature. Regional sheets carry Latin headings, and wider maps follow Alexander's empire and the Roman world, with local plans and insets for particular places, all reconstructions of antiquity drawn from learned interpretation.

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