Agrippa World Map

[diegis]

There is any more detailed sources about M.V. Agrippa world map and his geograpy related writings? I understand his big map was exposed at Rome at some point, in Augustus time but i would like to see some more detailed descriptions if possible.
Thanks in advance

[D B Campbell]

The main source (afaik) is Pliny, Natural History 3.17 (plus scattered references to distances "given by M. Agrippa").

Sadly, Dilke's Greek and Roman Maps seems not to be available on Google Books.

[diegis]

I see, thank you Duncan

[D B Campbell]

I came across this book, which mentions Agrippa's map. The map is given the appearance of a papyrus document, but beware -- it is a modern reconstruction!

[Michael Ferrar]

I have written a complete paper which analyses the text of Pliny, particularly 6;38 and 6;39 to understand the map of Agrippa.It is now on my website under the Abstracts Carto-geography as text cgPl2. Text cgPl1 is an analysis of the complete text regarding geography as contained within Pliny's text.
The map of Agrippa was a geographical map, very close to a Mercator or Meridional Points projection and not akin to the Tabula Peutingeriana. The Romans were very adept at producing proper maps and there is in fact a Tombstone for a soldier of the 4th cohort, Praetorians who is described as a Cosmogrphirium caelator, a drawer of maps.
Go to http://www.cartographyunchained.com where there is also a Roman section regarding the Agrimensors or Geometres.

[Robert Vermaat]

Very interesting Michael!