School Atlas of Classical Geography

The battlefields of the Granicus, Issus and Arbela, the extent of Alexander's conquests and the world known to classical wri...

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The battlefields of the Granicus, Issus and Arbela, the extent of Alexander's conquests and the world known to classical writers all appear in the School Atlas of Classical Geography, published in 1880. The atlas is associated with Alexander Keith Johnston and the Edinburgh and London firm W. & A. K. Johnston. Regional sheets of Italy, Germany and neighbouring provinces carry Latin headings, and the maps were made to be read beside classical texts, so they are nineteenth-century reconstructions for the study of antiquity, not maps surviving from the ancient world.

The battlefields of the Granicus, Issus and Arbela, the extent of Alexander's conquests and the world known to classical writers all appear in the School Atlas of Classical Geography, published in 1880. The atlas is associated with Alexander Keith Johnston and the Edinburgh and London firm W. & A. K. Johnston. Regional sheets of Italy, Germany and neighbouring provinces carry Latin headings, and the maps were made to be read beside classical texts, so they are nineteenth-century reconstructions for the study of antiquity, not maps surviving from the ancient world.

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