Introduction; 1. The surviving copy: history, publication, scholarship; 2. The surviving copy: the material object and its palaeography; 3. Design and character of the map; 4. Recovery of the original map from the surviving copy; 5. The original map; Conclusion: the map's place in classical and medieval cartography.
A long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the Peutinger Map as a masterpiece both of mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology.
Richard J. A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taken the lead in establishing the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is the author of several books, including The Senate of Imperial Rome and the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.
'The great strength of Talbert's book is that it argues - at times
almost despite itself - for an imaginative non-cartographical
viewing of the Peutinger Table.' The Times Literary Supplement
'This book is a very rich, detailed and inspiring study. In
combination with the supporting online materials, it will
undoubtedly stimulate further research on and debate about the
Peutinger Map.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'… deserves our gratitude for having made the TP [Peutinger Map]
digitally accessible to the scholarly community and for having
provided a detailed commentary.' Bulletin of the American Society
of Papyrologists
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