Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-By-Map Directory (2 Volume Set)

Richard J. A. Talbert

ISBN 10: 0691049459 / ISBN 13: 9780691049458

Published by Princeton University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-By-Map Directory (2 Volume Set)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691049459
• ISBN 13: 9780691049458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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

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.