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Platner's map of Rome for The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome (1911). The topography of ancient Rome is the description of the built environment of the city of ancient Rome . It is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on archaeology , epigraphy , cartography and philology .
Roman Empire period 15th century reconstruction of Ptolemy's map. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea; Strabo (63 BC – AD 24) Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD) Isidore of Charax (1st century AD) Mucianus (1st century AD) Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79), Natural History; Marinus of Tyre (AD 70 – 130) [1] Ptolemy (90–168), Geography; Pausanias (2nd ...
Geography of Ancient Rome Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. A. Roman Anatolia (8 C, 17 P) Ancient Roman geographers ...
It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires.
Category: Geography of Rome. 34 languages. ... Topography of the ancient city of Rome (5 C, 61 P) H. Hills of Rome (1 C, 10 P) Historic district of Rome (3 C, 1 P) P.
The Western and Eastern Roman Empires by 476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD) – the two halves of the Roman Empire ended at different times, with the Western Roman Empire coming to an end in 476 AD (the end of Ancient Rome). The Eastern Roman Empire (referred to by historians as the Byzantine Empire) survived for nearly a thousand ...
The Plan of Rome is a model, more precisely a relief map, of ancient Rome in the 4th century. Made of varnished plaster (11 × 6 m), it represents three-fifths of the city at a 1/400 scale, forming a puzzle of around one hundred pieces. It was created by Paul Bigot, an architect and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900.
Posidonius (or Poseidonius) of Apameia (c. 135–51 BCE) was a Greek Stoic philosopher [10] who traveled throughout the Roman world and beyond and was a celebrated polymath throughout the Greco-Roman world, like Aristotle and Eratosthenes. His work "about the ocean and the adjacent areas" was a general geographical discussion, showing how all ...