Mapping Mediterranean Lands (New Griffon)

This special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon , presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. Each article is in both English and Modern Greek. Contents: Mapping Mediterranean Lands (Maria Georgopoulou); "Mapping the Mediterranean" in the Gennadius Library (leonora Navari); American Overseas Digital Library Medmaps Inventory Database of the ASCSA Gennadius Library Maps Program (Alexis Malliaris); Francesco Grimani at the Gennadius Library (Haris Kalligas); The Cartography of the Greek Enlightenment, 1700-1820 (george Tolias); Pre-Linnean Taxonomies, Edenic Visions, and Cosmographic Dreams: Pierre Belon's Mappings of Mount Athos (Veronica della Dora).