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Barthelemy´s map of Arcadia is a map created by the French scholar Abbè J. J. Barthelemy, who discovered ancient Greece in when he was on a scientific mission to Rome in 1754. Despite this Barthelemy had a crucial impact on the study of Greek Antiquity, through his published work Le Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire, which is mixture of scholarship and fiction.

Map of Arcadia

Despite never have been to Greece, Barthelemy published a collection of maps of ancient Greece in 1786, a year before his more famous work. Amongst these maps is a highly significant map of the region of Arcadia, as it is the first map to reintroduce ancient names such as Tegea. This is evident when compared to Venetian maps from the 17th century, which features the medieval name of Tegea - Amyklion. The reason for this is Barthelemy's use of the geographical accounts of Strabo and particularly Pausanias, rather then contemporary maps.

Bibliography

• Bakke, Jørgen. (2007) Forty Rivers: Landscape and Memory in the District of Ancient Tegea, Bergen: The University of Bergen.