Аннотация:The author uses cartographic material to develop the topic presented in the article by
A.V. Makhlayuk published in 2019, ‘The space of the Roman world in the Res gestae divi
Augusti’. If this work is about the ‘mental-geographical «map» of Roman imperialism’, the
‘imaginary, symbolic’ geography of the ‘empire without borders’ in a literary text, then our
article analyzes the imperial spatial ideology on cartographic material, primarily on the
material from Peutinger’s map of the world, which, in author’s opinion, reflects precisely this
Roman view of the relationship between the Roman Empire and the oikoumene (imperium
and orbis terrarum). Researchers who see this map as a product of Hellenistic geography deny
the existence of Roman imperial motifs on the map. The article makes an attempt to show
that Peutinger’s map is an excellent example of the embodiment in the cartographic form of
the ideological program of Roman imperialism, represented also in poetic works of Horace,
Vergil, Silius Italicus and other authors.