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Useful Maps HUMN 220: HUMANITIES I Ted Everett Jamie Bennett Fall 2005 The World The East The Med Homer’s View of World Hecataeus’ World550-480 BC Modern World Greece Eastern Mediterranean Map of Attica Central Greece Blank Med * PDF’s Available at: /map/download/m1_general_dload.pdf /map/download/area_a7_dload.pdf /map/download/area_a4_dload.pdf Ancient Greek World SLIDE #105/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/105mono.html TITLE: World view according to HomerDATE: prior to 900 B.C.AUTHOR: HomerDESCRIPTION: These slides show reconstructions of the world/earth view held by the early Greek poet Homer. The Homeric conception of the world represented as a flat, circular disc of land surrounded by a continuous ocean-stream remained a popular notion in the Greek world even after many philosophers and scientists had accepted the theory of the sphericity of the earth enunciated by the Pythagoreans and subjected to theoretical proof by Aristotle. In this interpretation the world is like a plateau on the top of a mountain; inside this, close to the surface of the earth, lies the House of Hades, the realm of Death, and beneath it Tartarus, the realm of Eternal Darkness. The plateau of the earth is surrounded by Oceanus, the world river, and from its periphery rises the fixed dome of the sky. The sun, the moon, and the stars rise from the waters at the edge of the dome, move in an arc above the earth, and then sink once again into the sea to complete their course beneath the Oceanus. The atmosphere above the mountain of the earth is thick with clouds and mist, but higher up is the clear ?ther with its starry ceiling.The earliest literary reference for cartography in Greece is difficult to interpret. Its context is the description of the shield of Achilles in the Iliad of Homer thought by modern scholars to have been written in the 8th century B.C. Since both Strabo (ca. 64/63 B.C.-A.D. 21 ) and the Stoics claimed Homer was the founder and father of a geographical science, genera