Mercator, Gerard (1512-1594). Tab.x.Europae Macedoniam Epirum ac Peloponnesum [Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus]. Amsterdam, 1578.

Gerard Mercator (1512–1594)Tab. X. Europ. Macedonia, Epirus, et PeloponnesusAmsterdam, 1578Copperplate engravingSheet size: 19 x 22 inches This elegant and historically rich map of Macedonia, Epirus, and the Peloponnesus was engraved by Gerard Mercator and published in the 1578 edition of his famed Ptolemaic Atlas, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Renaissance. Grounded in the geographic framework of Claudius Ptolemy, Mercator's map offers a window into classical antiquity through the refined lens of 16th-century humanist scholarship. The map’s focus on ancient Greece makes it an essential artifact for anyone interested in classical history. Macedonia, the homeland of Alexander the Great; Epirus, seat of Pyrrhus and Hellenistic resistance; and the Peloponnesian Peninsula, the theater of Sparta, Corinth, and the Peloponnesian War—all are rendered with scholarly precision. The Aegean islands, Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian coast are also included, densely labeled with Lati