Map of the Greek World

For the Greek people around VII or VI BC, the world was "Mediterranean": the geography of planet Earth consisted of the Mediterranean Sea, minor extensions of water related to the former and the land surrounding them.

The World according to Hecataeus of Miletus - 550 BC

This Homeric Conception of the world was best put in paper in a map designed by Hecataeus of Miletus around 550 BC, were we can distinguish:

- The world was a huge mass of land floating in the middle of the Ocean.
- The land was divided by the Mediterranean into two big pieces: Europa in the North and Asia in the South.
- If you sailed west, you would get to the "Pillars of Heracles" (today known as "The Strait of Gibraltar").
- The Caspian Sea, the place where Jason and the Argonauts had to go in order to recover the Golden Fleece, was the furthest Eastern-point of the planet.

Below this paragraph, the best ancient-modern map of Hellas (the Ancient Greek name for ancient and modern Greece) I've found in the Internet, which will let you easily locate the places mentioned by all the post-Homeric poets such as Euripides, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus and "the rest".

Classical Greek World Map

Laconian Sparta, Boeotian Thebes, Attican Athens, Argolid Troezen, Mycenae, Aulis, Ithaca, Troy, Marathon, Delphi ... every region and city found in classical literature.