Greek World Atlas — Cities, Battles & Figures, 750

About this atlas

This map traces the Greek world — mainland Greece, the Aegean islands, Crete, Ionia, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and the Black Sea colonies — across thirteen snapshots from the early polis period (c. 750 BCE) to the Roman conquest of Greece (146 BCE).

Each era is shown as a set of city and capital markers colored by power, alongside crossed-swords icons for key battles. Precise territorial borders for the ancient Greek world rarely survive, so this atlas focuses on the sites that defined each period rather than drawing speculative polygons.

Use the dropdown, timeline strip, or the scrubber at the bottom of the map to jump between eras. Use the ← and → arrow keys to step through.
Click a power in the legend to isolate it on the map; click again to restore all.
Click any city, capital, or crossed-swords battle marker for details and sources.
Toggle Compare to place another era on the right half of the map and drag the divider to reveal how cities, battles, and powers shifted between periods.
Use the filter chips above the map to hide or show capitals, cities, battles, trade routes, and region labels.
Press Play on the timeline to auto-advance through all thirteen eras.
Open a Guided journey to follow Xerxes' invasion, Alexander's campaign, or the rise and fall of Athens step by step.
Turn on Polis features chips to ring the poleis with attested walls, coinage, harbors, or a democratic constitution — attributes drawn from the Copenhagen Polis Centre's Inventory.
Turn on Oracles, Schools, or Festivals layers to overlay era-independent sites — Delphi and Dodona, the Athenian philosophical schools, and the four crown games.
In the Notable figures list, figures with a compiled itinerary (Themistocles, Alcibiades, Pyrrhus, Xenophon, Herodotus, Pythagoras, Alexander, Demetrius) can be clicked to open a dossier that steps through their travels on a mini-map.
Each era's URL updates as you browse — copy the link to share a specific view.

Historical research compiled from Wikipedia, Livius.org, World History Encyclopedia, Britannica, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Full citations appear in each era's popups.