Palica
Dekeleia Decelea Pattala Patala
Dyrrachium Dyrrhachium Peiraeum Piraeum
Eetioneia Eetionea Phyle Phylae
Egypt AEgyptus Pisa Pisae
Eresus Eressus Pylus Pylos
Erytheia Erythia Thessaly Thessalia
Helus Helos Thrace Thracia

By comparing in the same way the place-names in Gibbon’s and other histories, the reader will need no glossarist in using the Atlas to lighten their geographical allusions.  It is not only when he comes to actual wars, campaigns and sieges that he will find a working chart of advantage.  When he reads in Grote of the Ionic colonization of Asia Minor, and wishes to relate the later view of its complex process to the much simpler account given by Herodotus, he gains equally by having a map of the region before him.

We realize how Grote himself worked over his topographical notes, eking out his own observations with map, scale and compass, when we read his preliminary survey of Greece, in the second volume of his history.  “Greece proper lies between the 36th and 40th parallels of north latitude and between the 21st and 26th degrees of east longitude.  Its greatest length, from Mount Olympus to Cape Taenarus, may be stated at 250 English miles; its greatest breadth, from the western coast of Akarnania to Marathon in Attica, at 180 miles; and the distance eastward from Ambrakia across Pindus to the Magnesian mountain Homole and the mouth of the Peneius is about 120 miles.  Altogether its area is somewhat less than that of Portugal.”  But as to the exact limits of Greece proper, he points out that these limits seem not to have been very precisely defined even among the Greeks themselves.

The chain called Olympus and the Cambunian mountains, ranging east and west and commencing with the AEgean Sea or the Gulf of Therma near the fortieth degree of north latitude, Grote continues, “is prolonged under the name of Mount Lingon until it touches the Adriatic at the Akrokeraunian promontory.  The country south of this chain comprehended all that in ancient times was regarded as Greece or Hellas proper, but it also comprehended something more.  Hellas proper (or continuous Hellas, to use the language of Skylax and Dikaearchus) was understood to begin with the town and Gulf of Ambrakia :  from thence northward to the Akrokeraunian promontory lay the land called by the Greeks Epirus—­ occupied by the Chaonians, Molossians, and Thesprotians, who were termed Epirots and were not esteemed to belong to the Hellenic aggregate.”