Awards

• Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: Multivolume Reference/Humanities 2000
• Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: Multivolume Reference/Humanities 2000.
• Winner of Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities 2000 (United States)

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Winner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers [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 --D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review I doubt that it will ever be superseded...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 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atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded. --Publishers Weekly [An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... It provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited. --Library Journal ( Best Reference Sources, 2000 ) [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. --Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, naming the Barrington Atlas My Book of the Decade in the Globe and Mail (2009) [A] remarkable achievement... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome. --Booklist [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 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 [N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work... [A] magnificent achievement. --Guy Halsall, New Scientist [A] definitive work. --Peter Jones, BBC History This atlas will be indispensable to scholars in classical studies. My only caution is that, at eight pounds, a sturdy coffee table is required for its use. --Judith A. Tyner, Geographical Review

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 scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded. Publishers Weekly 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 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 A magnificent achievement. -- Guy Halsall New Scientist A remarkable achievement ... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome. Booklist 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 ... The cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple ...This 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 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 [An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... it provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited, this has been called one of the greatest achievements in 20th century Greek and Roman scholarship; it's easy to see why. Library Journal

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 scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded. -- Publishers Weekly 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 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 A magnificent achievement. -- Guy Halsall, New Scientist A remarkable achievement ... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome. -- Booklist 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 ... The cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple ...This 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 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 [An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... it provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited, this has been called one of the greatest achievements in 20th century Greek and Roman scholarship; it's easy to see why. -- Library Journal

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Richard J. A. Talbert is research professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he leads the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is the author and coeditor of many books, including World and Hour in Roman Minds, Challenges of Mapping the Classical World, and Atlas of Classical History.

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