Arcadia. No. 26

Arcadia. No. 26

Arcadia : for the travels of Anacharsis. By M. Barbie du Bocage. May 1786. T. Cook, Sc. (to accompany) Maps, Plans, Views and Coins, Illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece ... Second Edition ... M.DCC.XCIII. (1793). (on upper margin) No. 26. Vol. IV. p. 261.

Copper engraved outline hand colored map of Arcadia in ancient Greece. It is surrounded by Achaea in the north, Argolis and Corinthia in the east and Laconia and Messenia in the south. Highly mountainous, this remote region according to Herodotus was inhabited by 'indigenous' Greeks living there before the arrival of the Hellenic tribes. Shows landmarks, rivers, etc . Relief shown pictorially

Barbie du Bocage, Jean Denis

1786

English

David Rumsey