Skylar Saphyr
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Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map - A Rome-centric map of the old world based on Marcus Agrippa's Orbis Terrarum
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Orbis Terrarum, the Roman Map - A Rome-centric map of the old world based on Marcus Agrippa's Orbis Terrarum
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- This map is based on a reconstruction of the Orbis Terrarum ("the circle of the world") completed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (Augustus Caesar's son-in-law) in A.D. 20, and may represent how the ancient Romans saw the world. With Asia in the east at the top of the map, the three continents of the known world are in similar proportions. The egocentric emphasis upon Rome is reflected in the expanded form of Italy, and the fact...
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