The Painted StoaThe Periplus
The PeriplusΠερίπλους
Ancient sailing guides that listed coasts, harbours and distances, such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. A guide to the places of the Greek world.
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The land and sea: NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble: Next Generation with topography and bathymetry, July 2004 (Reto Stöckli), public domain. Coastlines: Ancient World Mapping Center, geodata (ODbL 1.0), derived from the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Places: Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org), CC BY 3.0. Counts of mentions: GLAUx, CC BY-SA 4.0. Everything is served from this site.