Description: A map of Hellas or ancient Greece, the &Aelig;gean Sea, coastal Asia Minor, and Crete after the Hellenese migration through the region. The map gives the general territorial boundaries at the time. "At a period long before the beginning of recorded history the Pelasgi were overwhelmed by an invasion of a more vigorous and warlike race, the Hellenes, who, descending from Thessaly, entirely overspread the peninsula and gave their name to the whole country. There were four chief divisions of the Hellenese, — the Dorians, &Aelig;olians, Achæans, and Ionians. The &Aelig;onians were spread over Northern Greece and the western coast of the Peloponnesus; the Achæans held the southern and eastern part of the Peloponnesus (the Arcadians, a remnant of the older Pelasgic race, occupying the center); the Ionians were confined to a narrow strip of country along the northern coast of the Peloponnesus and eastward into Attica; the Dorians were to the north, and occupied the southern slope of Mount Oeta. Such appears to have been the distribution of the races in the age represented by the Homeric poems." — Swinton, 1874, p. 77–78.
Place Names: Greece, Corinth, Athens, Spart
ISO Topic Categories: society,
oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries
Keywords: Greece After Migration, statistical,
political,
physical, physical features, major political subdivisions, ethnological, society,
oceans,
location,
inlandWaters,
boundaries, 1100–500 BC
Source: William Swinton, Outlines of the World's History (New York, NY: Ivison, Blakeman, and Company, 1874)
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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