Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Her compound adjective “seagirt,” however, is anchored in Homer and our translated understanding of the ancient ... Greece.

Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary cities that don't actually exist and missing continents. Atlantis is an imaginary city that features in the ...

Geography is destiny for nations ... who was both and neither but whose verse proved that Greece was, as the Romans used to say, primus inter pares, first among equals. Strabo traveled throughout ...