Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
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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. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through 640 AD. Most of the maps are of the scale 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000. The atlas was published by Princeton University press, copyright 2000. The ISBN is 069103169X. The book was the winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities.
It contains 102 color topographic maps, covering territory from the British Isles and the Azores and eastward to Afghanistan and western China. The time period covered is roughly from 1,000 BC up to AD 650. The atlas is accompanied by a map-by-map directory on CD-ROM, which is also available in print as a two-volume, 1,400 page edition.
The atlas' production involved a project of 12 years' duration and a team of over 200 scholars, The effort was funded by $4.5 million in federal and private donations. It provides an up-to-date reference for ancient geography, building up William Smith's legendary work, An historical atlas of ancient geography, biblical and classical (London: John Murray, 1872-1874).
