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Apr 1, 2022 · By Patricia Claus. April 1, 2022. A map of the known world in the time of Herodotus, the Greek writer who is known as “The Father of History.”
Mar 3, 2023 · Last Updated: March 3, 2023 3 Comments. Map crated by Bibi Saint-Pol via Wikimedia. The map above is a modern depiction of ancient Greek historian Herodotus’ view of the Ecumene (or oecumene), literally the the known or the inhabited world, in the 5th Century BC.
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Apr 26, 2012 · World History Encyclopedia, 26 Apr 2012. Web. 23 May 2024. Possibly what the Greek historian Herodotus believed the world looked like (5th century BCE) based on his writings.
1895. Files. Collection. Where the East Begins: Travelogues and Geopolitics. Tags. chr_ancient, geo_world, Herodotus, travel. Citation. “Herodotus's map of the world,” Mapping Cultural Space Across Eurasia, accessed May 21, 2024, https://eurasia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/852. Embed. Copy the code below into your web page.
Herodotus [a] ( Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized : Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Oct 19, 2022 · World Map of Herodotus. Bibi Saint-Pol (Public Domain)
Jul 25, 2020 · The major details of all these maps are all but unchanged, the world of Herodotus is still divided into three continents, Europe, Asia, and Libya, and is still encircled by a great ocean.
