Richard J. A. Talbert is the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Classics and the founder of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.
"Ancient Perspectives does not simply revise the last
comprehensive, but largely traditional, study of early European and
west Asian cartography in the light of the latest research,
discoveries, and debates; for the first time, it puts what survives
of early Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman maps and related
artifacts into their very different wider cultural contexts and
reveals the diverse roles played by the maps in their very
different societies. These roles often run counter to traditional
assumptions and yet, in some respects, seem strangely familiar. Not
the least achievements of the book are that they succeed in weaving
the notoriously fragmentary surviving evidence into such a
sophisticated, nuanced, persuasive, thorough, and convincing whole
and that the book does so in language that is crystal clear and
free of jargon. It represents scholarly communication at its very
best."
--Peter Barber, British Library
"Edited and introduced masterfully by Richard J. A. Talbert,
[Ancient Perspectives] contains must-read essays for all those
interested in the history of these earliest forms of cartography. .
. . A truly wonderful read, and with its updated research and
bibliography, [it] certainly represents one of most important
additions to the scholarship on ancient cartography published in
recent years. I could not recommend it more."--John Hessler,
Library of Congress "Portolan"
"I recommend Ancient Perspectives highly."--Judith A. Tyner,
California State University, Long Beach "Geographical Reviews"
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