In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington
Atlas" re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from
the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North
Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries.
Its large format (13 1/4 x 18 in. or 33.7 x 46.4 cm) has been
custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier, MapQuest.com,
Inc., and is unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail. Over 70
experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from
satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern
landscape to its ancient appearance, and to mark ancient names and
features in accordance with the most up-to-date historical
scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Chronologically, the
Barrington Atlas spans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and
no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are
used to represent most regions.
Since the 1870s, all attempts to map the classical world
comprehensively have failed. The "Barrington Atlas" has finally
achieved that elusive and challenging goal. It began in 1988 at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, under the direction of
the distinguished ancient historian Richard Talbert, and has been
developed with approximately $4.5 million in funding support.
The resulting "Barrington Atlas" is a reference work of
permanent value. It has an exceptionally broad appeal to everyone
worldwide with an interest in the ancient Greeks and Romans, the
lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they
encountered in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Scholars and
libraries should find it essential. It is also for students,
travelers, lovers of fine cartography, and anyone eager to retrace
Alexander's eastward marches, cross the Alps with Hannibal,
traverse the Eastern Mediterranean with St. Paul, or ponder the
roads, aqueducts, and defense works of the Roman Empire. For the
new millennium the "Barrington Atlas" brings the ancient past back
to life in an unforgettably vivid and inspiring way.
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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