1784 Bocage Map of Athens Greece
by Paul Fearn
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1784 Bocage Map of Athens Greece
Artist
Paul Fearn
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Photograph
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This is an attractive 1784 map of ancient Athens, Greece. Covering the walled center of ancient Athens, this map details the ancient city’s most important buildings and monuments. Names the Lyceum (Aristotle’s famous school of philosophy) and the Cynosarges (Public gymnasium) as well as the Forum, the Citadel, the Temple of Theseus, and the Areopagus. Prepared by Barbie de Bocage for publication in the atlas volume attached to Jean Jacques Barthelemy’s 1788 Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece .
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September 10th, 2013
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