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We all three of us have maps by which to walk. Theirs are Korean atlases of Italy—with lines of oriental letters crosshatching an already complex web of paths. Mine, less useful except for exercises in imagination, is the appropriate page of the Barrington Classical Atlas—an American work which shows only what its editors know was there in ancient times. Their maps from Seoul are palimpsests of motorway upon battle site, spidery nets, perfect for tour planning. My map is a mass of pink-and-green open space.