Richard J. A. Talbert (born 1947) is a contemporary British-American ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is William Rand Kenan, Jr. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research , Professor of Ancient History. Talbert is a leading scholar of ancient geography and the idea of space in the ancient Mediterranean world. Connected to this spatial research is a major project on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger table), a copy of an ancient Roman map preserved in a Medieval version. The Tabula Peutingeriana ( Peutinger table) is an Itinerarium showing the Cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC
Talbert received his education at The King's School Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, where he gained Double First Class Honours in Classics (1968), followed by a Ph. Canterbury ( ˈkæntəbɹ̩i is a City in eastern Kent in the South East region of England. Corpus Christi College (full name The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, often shortened to simply Corpus) is a College of the University The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the D. (1972). Cambridge granted him an honorary Litt. D. in 2003. He is also a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. Talbert has been on the faculties of the Queen's University, Belfast and McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Queen's University, generally referred to simply as Queen's, is a coeducational non-sectarian Public university located in Kingston, Ontario Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. McMaster redirects here for others see McMaster (disambiguation. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page He was Herodotus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1978-79). The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this His study The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton University Press, 1984) won the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in 1985. The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. The American Philological Association ( APA) founded in 1869, is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and
For 2000-01 Talbert was awarded a J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, and the inaugural Robert F. The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919 is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Among his scholarly work is the compilation of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 2000), which won the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities. The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert
Publications
- Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily (Cambridge, 1974).
- The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton U. P. , 1984).
- Atlas of Classical History (Routledge, 1985).
- "Carl Muller (1813-1894), S. Jacobs, and the Making of Classical Maps in Paris for John Murray. " Imago Mundi 46 (1994) 128-150.
- ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 2000).
- ed. with Kai Brodersen Space in the Roman World, its Perception and Presentation (LIT, Munster, 2004).
- trans. Plutarch on Sparta new ed. (2005).
- with M. T. Boatwright and D. Gargola The Romans: From Village to Empire (Oxford, 2004). A Brief History of the Romans, (2006).
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