Rome and Carthage, 264–241 B.C.
"Carthage, as you will see on the map, was a town on the north coast of Africa, at the point where the African coast is nearest to Sicily...The Sicels, who gave their name to Sicily, were an Italian people, very like the Latins at first. But the...

Rome and Carthage on the eve of and during the first Punic War, 264–241 BC
A map of Rome and Carthage during the First Punic War (264–241 BC). This map is color–coded to show the extent of the Roman Empire in yellow and the Carthaginian territory in pink. At the beginning of the war, the Roman Empire covered the...

Italia Up to the Time of Augustus, 27 BC
A map of Italy prior to the ascension of Augustus Caesar in 27 BC. The map shows the Roman territories of the peninsula south of the Alps and east of the River Varus (Var), and includes the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, the territories in...

The Roman Empire Under Augustus, 27 BC to AD 14
A map of the extent of the Roman Empire under Augustus (63 BC to AD 14). The map is color–coded to show the territories, and uses Latin place names such as Mare Internum (Mediterranean Sea), Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), and Danubius Fl. (Danube ...

Map of Italy, 275 B.C.
A map of Italy after 275 B.C. showing the extent of Roman control of the peninsula, and the Carthaginian control of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica before the Punic Wars. This map shows the Appian Way between Rome and Brundisium, important cities of th...

Rome and South Italy, 282 BC
Map showing Rome and the southern Greek cities of Capua, Tarentum, Heraclea, Beneventum, Messana (Messina), and Rhegium (Reggio Calabria). After defeating Pyrrus, King of Epirus (Greece), "Rome had no difficulty in taking all south Italy. And no...

Roman Power After the Samnite Wars, 290 BC
A map of the Roman territories on the Italian Peninsula after the Samnite Wars in 290 BC, showing the cities of Rome, Beneventum, Capua, Naples, and Ausculum, including the territories of Latium, Etruscans, and Samnites under Roman control. The map a...

Early Latium, 338 B.C.
A map showing early Latium, and the site of Rome. This map shows the territories of the Etruscans to the north of the River Tiber, and Latins to the south, the cities of Veii, Tibur (Tivoli) and Tusculum, mountains, rivers, salt marshes, the ford int...

Italy, 343–263 BC
Map of Italy, from the beginning of the Samnite Wars (343 BC) to the beginning of the Punic Wars (264 BC). The map is color–coded to show portions of the Liguria, Gallia, Venetia, and Istria territories in the north, the Carthaginian, Greek, an...

Rome and the Samnites, 343–290 BC
Map of the vicinity of Rome showing the area claimed by the Samnites and the Greek city south of Rome: Capua. "The Samnites so distressed one of these cities, Capua, that she called on the Romans to help her, in the year 343. This was the beginn...