Index no. 0045

Atlas Antiquus

Karl Spruner, Theodor Menke

Third edition

1865

Published in Gotha by Justus Perthes

Scanning and other details about this work.

The first, 1850, edition of this atlas was edited by by Karl Spruner (Karl Spruner von Metz, Karl von Spruner). This third edition was revised by Heinrich Theodor Menke.

The plates were drawn by F. v. Stülpnagel. Twenty-one of them are undated, eight are dated 1861, one is dated 1860, and one 1863.

Plate no.	Plate title	Plate title, Latin
I	The world in the mind of Homer; of Herodotus; of Strabo. The Greek and Roman world as known in the time of Ptolemy. The world in the mind of Ptolemy.	Orbis terrarum ad mentem Homeri. Orbis terrarum ad mentem Herodoti. Orbis terrarum ad mentem Strabonis. Orbis terrarum Graecis atque Romanis Ptolemaei tempore notus. Orbis terrarum ad mentem Ptolemaei.
II	The world at the time of the Assyrian kingdom.	Orbis terrarum regni Assyrii tempore.
III	Canaan.	Canaan.
IIII	The world at the time of the Persian kingdom.	Orbis terrarum regni Persici tempore.
V	Greece at the time of the Dorian migration.	Graecia tempore migrationis Doricae.
VI	Greece, Macedonia, Thrace etc. up to the time of the Peloponnesian War.	Graecia, Macedonia, Thracia etc. inde a belli Peloponnesiaci tempore.
VII	Greece, Epirus after the Persian War	Graecia, Epirus post bella Persica.
VIII	The kingdom of Alexander the Great.	Alexandri Magni Regnum.
VIIII	The world after the battle of Corupedi	Orbis terrarum post proelium Corupediense 282–220 a. Chr.
X	Italy; Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica.	Italia adiectis iis, in quas usque ad Augusti tempus Italiae nomen propgatum est, regionibus, Sicila, Sardinia, Corsica, quales fuerunt ante adventum Gallorum.
XI	Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, to the arrival of the Gauls and the Marsicus War	Italia, Gallia cisalpina, Sicilia, Sardinia, Corsica, ab adventu Gallorum usque ad bellum Marsicum.
XII	Italy, nearer Gaul, Illyria, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, etc... Battle of Actium	Italia, Gallia citerior, Illyricum, Sicilia, Sardinia, Corsica, quales post leges Plautiam Papiriam at Pompeiam usque ad bellum Actiacum fuerunt.
XIII	The Mediterranean with adjacent peoples from Hannibal's war to the time of Mithridates the Great.	Mare internum cum populis adiacentibus a bello Hannibalico usque ad Mithridatis Magni tempus.
XIIII	The Mediterranean with adjacent peoples from Pompey's return from Asia to the Battle of Actium.	Mare internum cum populis adiacentibus a Pompeii ex Asia reditu usque ad bellum Actiacum
XV	The Roman Empire from the Battle of Actium to the time of Diocletian.	Imperium Romanum inde a bello Actiaco usque ad Diocletiani tempus.
XVI	The Roman Empire at the time of Constantine the Great.	Imperium Romanum inde a Constantini Magni tempore.
XVII	Iberia.	Hispania.
XVIII	Britain and Ireland.	Britannia et Hibernia.
XVIIII	Gaul.	Gallia.
XX	Italy, regions 4-11 [northern].	Italiae regiones IIII. V. VI. VII. VIII. VIIII. X. XI.
XXI	Italy, regions 1-4 [southern]; Sicily.	Italiae regiones I. II. III. IIII., Sicilia.
XXII	Germany	Germania, Raetia, Noricum.
XXIII	Pannonia, Illyria, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Macedonia, Epirus	Pannonia, Illyricum, Dacia, Moesia, Thracia, Macedonia, Epirus.
XXIIII	The Black Sea and adjacent regions.	Pontus Euxinus et quae ei adiacent.
XXV	Pontus and Bithynia, Asia [minor], Lycia and Pamphylia, Galatia, Cappadocia, Stria, Crete, Cyprus.	Pontus et Bithynia, Asia, Lycia et Pamphylia, Galatia, Cappadocia, Syria, Creta, Cyprus.
XXVI	Palestine at the time of Herod.	Phoenice, Coelesyria, Decapolis, Iudaea, Herodiadarum tempore.
XXVII	Armenia and neighbouring provinces.	Albania, Iberia, Colchis, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria.
XXVIII	The kingdom of Persia.	Indoscythicum atque Parthicum regna.
XXVIIII	India.	India.
XXX	Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt.	Arabia, Aethiopia, Aegyptus.
XXXI	The Maghreb	Cyrenaica, Africa, Mauretania.

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