2008-08-06 Old Maps

Trask has posted about old maps in Archaic Cartography as Art and Gaming Realia and Archaic Cartography as Art Part II. A neat collection of links for all those mapomaniacs out there. Some links point to online archives where you can get some nice inspirations for your own maps, some links point to shops that sell actual prints of the maps – not so useful for your games, probably.

=> Trask | Archaic Cartography as Art and Gaming Realia | Archaic Cartography as Art Part II

I odered this item from one of the shops:

ARMENIA, MESOPOTAMIA, BABYLONIA ET ASSYRIA, CUM ADJENTICIBUS REGIONIBUS: includes the route of Xenophon and the 10, 000’s Anabasis. From Spruner’s Atlas of Antiquities, by Justus Perez, Gotha, Germany, c. 1880. Steel engraving of the highest order, very fine colouring. Scales in German and Roman miles, Greek stadia and Persian parasangs. ¹

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And then I’ll reread the Anabasis by Xenophon. 😄

=> Anabasis by Xenophon

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...and me knee deep in Persian history right now too. The internet is just too full of fun stuff sometimes 😄

– greywulf 2008-08-06 13:31 UTC

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You are? What are you reading? I’ve yet to meet another ancient history geek! 😄

– Alex Schroeder 2008-08-06 14:09 UTC

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I’m re-reading my Osprey books, getting ready to paint my Imperial Persian figures. Among others, there’s The Persian Army 560–330 BC and The Greek and Persian Wars 500–323 BC. All Osprey books are pretty readable, and they give a decent overview of the era they cover - and they cover a lot 😄

=> Osprey | The Persian Army 560–330 BC | The Greek and Persian Wars 500–323 BC

I’ve also got a copy of the Greek Wars:The Failure of Persia (link to Google Books) by George Cawkwell from the Oxford Univeristy Press. If you can track it down, it’s a superb book.

=> Greek Wars:The Failure of Persia

– greywulf 2008-08-06 14:44 UTC

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