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Maps of Ancient Greece: The Hellenic World on Paper

Few places have been mapped as lovingly, or as often, as ancient Greece. The land of Homer, Pericles and Alexander has drawn cartographers for centuries, each trying to fix a shifting world of city-states, colonies and myth onto a single sheet. Here is a short tour of how the Hellenic world was mapped — through restored antique maps you can hang on your wall.

d'Anville and the classical ideal

The eighteenth-century French geographer Jean-Baptiste d'Anville mapped Greece with unmatched scholarly care. His map of Ancient Greece (1794) lays out Attica, the Peloponnese, Thessaly and the islands, while his Asia Minor (1794) charts the Greek cities of the Anatolian coast — Ionia, Ephesus and the shadow of Troy.

Spruner and the map of history

A century later the German scholar Karl von Spruner approached Greece differently — as history to be visualised. His Greece and Asia Minor (1854) and Greece and Epirus (1865) fit the ancient landscape to the events that played out across it.

Bring the Greek world home

Each map is restored in high resolution from a public-domain original and offered as a museum-quality giclée print, framed and delivered. Browse the full Ancient Greece collection →