Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

During the 1980s, the American Philological Association initiated an effort to redress a long-standing, fundamental deficiency in the range of reference works serving everyone who studies classical antiquity: a comprehensive atlas. Constituted as the Classical Atlas Project under the editorship of [Richard Talbert], this 12-year effort brought together over 200 scholars and cartographers, who collaborated in producing the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton University Press, 2000). For the first time since the completion of William Smith’s Atlas of Ancient Geography in 1874 (John Murray, London), there became available a consistent and up-to-date presentation of physical geography, cultural landscape and multi-lingual toponymy for the entire footprint of Greek and Roman civilization. The impact of the Barrington Atlas has already been immense. Instantly and uniformly praised in both the popular and the academic press, the atlas has become an indispensable and heavily consulted work in library reference sections, map collections and academic departmental libraries around the world.

More information about the Barrington Atlas is available at http://www.unc.edu/awmc/batlas.html.