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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
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
, where he is William Rand Kenan, Jr., 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
Tabula Peutingeriana

The Tabula Peutingeriana is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map of which this is a unique copy was last revised in the fourth or early fifth century....
 (Peutinger table), a copy of an ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

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....
 map preserved in a Medieval version.

Talbert received his education at The King's School Canterbury
Canterbury

Canterbury lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
 and Corpus Christi College
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College is a College of the University of Cambridge. It is notable for being the only college to have been founded by Cambridge townspeople, having been founded in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary....
, Cambridge University
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, where he gained Double First Class Honours in Classics (1968), followed by a Ph.






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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
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
, where he is William Rand Kenan, Jr., 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
Tabula Peutingeriana

The Tabula Peutingeriana is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map of which this is a unique copy was last revised in the fourth or early fifth century....
 (Peutinger table), a copy of an ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

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....
 map preserved in a Medieval version.

Talbert received his education at The King's School Canterbury
Canterbury

Canterbury lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
 and Corpus Christi College
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College is a College of the University of Cambridge. It is notable for being the only college to have been founded by Cambridge townspeople, having been founded in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary....
, Cambridge University
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, where he gained Double First Class Honours in Classics (1968), followed by a Ph. 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
Queen's University

Queen's University, generally referred to simply as Queen's, is a coeducational, non-sectarian, research intensive, public university located in Kingston, Ontario, Ontario, Canada....
, Belfast
Belfast

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
 and McMaster University
McMaster University

McMaster University is a research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 20,600 full-time undergraduate students and 2,901 postgraduate students in 2007-08....
 in Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
, Canada
Canada

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. He was Herodotus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is a center for theoretical research. The Institute is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and Kurt G?del, after their immigration to the United States....
, Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey

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 (1978-79). His study The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press

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, 1984) won the American Philological Association
American Philological Association

The American Philological Association , founded in 1869, is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of History of Greece and Ancient Rome civilization....
's Goodwin Award of Merit in 1985.

For 2000-01 Talbert was awarded a J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919, is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards....
 Senior Fellowship, and the inaugural Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship at the National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. It is the only major independent institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities in the United States....
 in North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. Among his scholarly work is the compilation of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

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....
 (Princeton, 2000), which won the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities.

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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