The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Two-volume Map-by-Map Directory) - Hardcover

Tempio, Rob

 
9780691049458: The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Two-volume Map-by-Map Directory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691049459 ISBN 13: 9780691049458
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Map-by-Map Directory

A Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas is available online (http://press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/B_ATLAS.PDF) and in a separate two-volume print edition of close to 1,500 pages. The Directory is designed to provide information about every place or feature in the Barrington Atlas. The section for each map comprises:

  • a concise text drawing attention to special difficulties in mapping a region, such as extensive landscape change since antiquity, or uneven modern exploration.
  • a listing of every name and feature on the map, with basic data about the period of occupation, the modern equivalents of ancient placenames, the modern country within which they are located, and brief references to relevant ancient testimony or modern studies.
  • a bibliography of works cited.

The Map-by-Map Directory is an essential accompaniment to the Barrington Atlas. As a uniquely rich, comprehensive, up-to-date distillation of evidence and scholarship, it has no match elsewhere and opens the way to an immense variety of further research initiatives

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About the Author

Richard J. A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and current President of the Association of Ancient Historians. He taught previously in the United Kingdom and Canada, and is the author of The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton), which won the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit.

From the Back Cover

"Quite simply the most important and most complicated project to be undertaken in classical studies this generation."--NEH reviewer

"This atlas provides us with a vital missing tool. It is a model of creative planning, and will be absolutely indispensable."--C. Nicolet (Sorbonne, Paris)

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691049459
ISBN 13 
9780691049458
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
1500