Barrington Atlas Map-by-Map Directory (Two-Volumes)

by Richard J.A. Talbert (Editor)

Overview

The two-volume Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas—an essential companion to the atlas

At close to 1,500 pages, this is a separate two-volume print edition of the Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas. The directory is also available online at http://assets.press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/B_ATLAS.PDF

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

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691049458
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/08/2000
Edition description:	Two-volume Map-by-Map Directory
Pages:	1448
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

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.

What People are Saying About This

C. Nicolet Sorbonne

This atlas provides us with a vital missing tool. It is a model of creative planning,and will be absolutely indispensable.

NEH reviewer

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

From the Publisher

"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)

Sorbonne C. Nicolet

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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"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)

Editorial Reviews

"[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved. . . . [I]t reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage. . . . [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple. . . . [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years."—-D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review

"I doubt that it will ever be superseded. . . . [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for. . . . [T]his remarkable atlas . . . has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies."—-Paul Cartledge, Times Higher Education Supplement

"This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature."—-Bernard Knox, Los Angeles Times Book Review

From the Publisher

"[A] remarkable achievement. . . . This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."

Booklist

[A] wonderful guide to the wordless lessons of antiquity. Everyone who studies Greece and Rome owes [the makers of the Barrington Atlas] a personal debt.

editor of the "Times Literary Supplement er Stothard

[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work. . . . [A] magnificent achievement.

New Scientist - Guy Halsall

[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved. With 99 maps on 175 pages, it reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage. . . . [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple. . . . [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years.

New York Times Book Review - D.J.R. Bruckner

[A] definitive work.
— Peter Jones

BBC History

I doubt that it will ever be superseded. . . . [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for. . . . [T]his remarkable atlas . . . has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies.
— Paul Cartledge

Times Higher Education Supplement

I doubt that it will ever be superseded. . . . [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for. . . . [T]his remarkable atlas . . . has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies.

Times Higher Education Supplement - Paul Cartledge

[A] definitive work.

BBC History - Peter Jones

The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user.

New York Review of Books - Jasper Griffin

This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature.

Los Angeles Times Book Review - Bernard Knox

[A] vast achievement. . . . Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project . . . almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill.

London Review of Books - Peter Green

The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user.
— Jasper Griffin

New York Review of Books

This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature.
— Bernard Knox

Los Angeles Times Book Review

[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved. With 99 maps on 175 pages, it reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage. . . . [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple. . . . [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years.
— D.J.R. Bruckner

New York Times Book Review

[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work. . . . [A] magnificent achievement.
— Guy Halsall

New Scientist

[A] vast achievement. . . . Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project . . . almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill.
— Peter Green

London Review of Books

The maps themselves are a delight to use....This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature. Maps, as always, stimulate the imagination. In these luminous pages, you can follow Alexander's zigzag march from Macedon to India, fighting battles and founding Alexandrias--more than a dozen of them--on the way.
— Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bernard Knox

Scholars need accurate maps: Classical scholars, in attempting to understand vanished civilizations, need good maps that accurately reveal the locations of cities, towns, roads, mines, aqueducts and other archaeological sites. So when scholars early in the 20th century were still using a rare classical atlas published in 1874, experts on the Roman Empire thought it was high time to publish a newer one.
— Raleigh News & Observer

Jon Franklin

The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is the culmination of a project begun in the 1980s and overseen by Richard Talbert of the University of North Carolina. The volume consists of 99 full-color maps showing classical lands from Iberia to Bactria and from the end of the Bronze Age (1000 B.C.) to A.D. 640. An accompanying CD-ROM contains directories for each map (notes and sources for the placement of the sites), which can be read with Adobe Acrobat program and is PC and MAC compatible.
—Archaeology

Mark Rose

Beautifully produced with an exquisite combination of scholarly precision and the highest level of cartographic art, this atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarshipDand it probably will never be superceded. It contains 99 strikingly clear and precise color maps reflecting Greek or Roman presence in the ancient world and presenting the landscape, insofar as possible, as it was in those times. The maps provide locations for the sites of thousands of known cities as well as indicators of less securely attested areas of habitation from the ninth-century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. The accuracy of these maps has been made possible by developments in satellite-generated aeronautical charts and recent progress in computational power. The atlas's final production began in 1988; its completion involved over 160 scholars and cartographers (editor Talbert is a professor of history and classics at UNC-Chapel Hill). Readers can choose between a CD-ROM and a print version of the accompanying two-volume map-by-map directory that contains essential information about the sites and their topography. A gazetteer includes the names of and critical information about all the sites located in the maps, and the accompanying Adobe Acrobat Reader provides powerful search capabilities. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The main point to make is that The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user.
— Jasper Griffin

The New York Review of Books

This is mapping on an epic scale, with a team of 70 historians and archaeologists contributing . . . over two decades . . .[Contributors] have added all the archaeological detail available—the lines of roads, the locations and names of settlements and towns, canals and aqueducts, mines and ports . . . showing what you might have seen as you rattled down the Appian Way in your state of the art chariot a couple of thousand years ago.
— Sean Coughlan

The Times Literary Supplement

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

NEH reviewer

"[A] remarkable achievement. . . . This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."

Booklist