In 99 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington Atlas" recreates 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 x 19 ins or 33 x 48 cm) has been custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier MapQuest.com, Inc., and is unrivalled for range, clarity and detail. Over 70 experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from satellite-generated ...
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In 99 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington Atlas" recreates 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 x 19 ins or 33 x 48 cm) has been custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier MapQuest.com, Inc., and is unrivalled 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. This new initiative 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 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 ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the people and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Scholars and libraries should all find it essential, although it is not just for them. It is also for students, travelers and lovers of fine cartography, as well as for anyone eager to retrace Alexander's eastward marches, to cross the Alps with Hannibal, to traverse the Eastern Mediterranean with St. Paul, or to 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 The Barrington Atlas" includes a CD-ROM Map-by-Map Directory. A separate 1,500 page two-volume print edition of the Directory is also available. 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 place names, the modern country within which they are located, brief references to relevant ancient testimony or modern studies, and 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. The CD-ROM will work on any MAC or PC that supports Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4.0. The installation software for Acrobat Reader is included on the CD-ROM.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0691049459. Very faint foxing to textblock else fine.; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2024; 13.1 X 10.1 X 4.5 inches; 1448 pages.
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VG Cover has minor wear. Bookblock has monir marking. 2 volumes, Brown cloth boards, gilt title lettering on spine. V. 1. pt. 1. Overview maps (1-6). Europa Septentrionalis (7-23)--pt. 2. Hispania, Libya (24-38)--pt. 3. Italia (39-48)--v. 2. pt. 4. Graecia, Asia Minor (49-66)--pt. 5. Syria, Meroe (67-83)--pt. 6. Pontus Euxinus, Persicus Sinus, Bactria (84-99)--Provinces of the Roman Empire (100-102). These two volumes have no maps. But all the Greek and Roman place names which are mapped in the atlas volume are here given together with references to the original research which marshals the evidence for how we know where the ancient places were.
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