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Title: The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot ISBN: 0-14-051335-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A necessary primer and companion
Comment: Superb map illustrations and general summaries for this period of history. A "must" for any student of ancient Greek history as a companion to all other books.

Rating: 1
Summary: Impressive at first sight, but...
Comment: OK, when I first picked up The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot, I was superficially impressed. But having slogged through this thin volume, I have concluded that it is the most poorly written book I have ever read. I think I would rather have my teeth pulled.

The maps look colorful at first glance, but they do silly things like mark battles in a light color that totally dissappears when placed on the maps. Or accompanying text will make direct reference to a place that is not on the map in question, so you have to flip back and forth to find the right map.

Each section starts with an intro chapter that is supposed to sum up what the individual chapters in the section contain, but it reads like a major cut-and-paste job. And by the time you get to the last sections of the book, the intro is actually longer that the indiviual chapters put together.

The atlas has helped me a little bit, and I'll refer to some of the maps from time to time, but this was not worth he effort.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Useful Reference
Comment: The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot is a very useful reference book as it is loaded with maps that help one interpret what is said in other works on the Greeks which too often come without good maps.

There are two weaknesses in the work.

1. The maps are rather small in this edition and the color keys are often hard to sort out as the colors are too close together in tint.
2. The spellings of names for people and places are often considerably different than one commonly runs into in works on the Greeks published in the US and even Britain - there were times when my computerized Encyclopaedia Britannica couldn't match the names as spelled.

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