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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:53:45 -0400
From: Leslie Nangle <[log in to unmask]>
To: Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: e-mail announcement to MAPS-L
Dear Tom Hardaway,
Thank you so much. It's probably best if you forward it to the list, I'm not
sure I would have access to it. Below is the message. Many thanks,
Leslie Nangle
Princeton University Press
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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert
"Quite simply the most important and most complicated project to be
undertaken in classical studies this generation."
--NEH reviewer
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 peoples 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 at
$150 / L95. The Directory is designed to provide information about every
place or feature in the Barrington Atlas.
Pre-Publication price: $250 / L155 ($325 / L205 after September 2000).
272 pages with front matter, maps and gazetteer.
Publication date September 2000.
Reserve your copy of the Barrington Atlas at the pre-publication price at:
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/6773.html
Princeton University Press
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-----Original Message-----
From: Johnnie Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:03 AM
To: Leslie Nangle
Subject: Re: e-mail announcement
Yes, you may send the message to MAPS-L or to [log in to unmask]
uga.edu and I will forward it to the list.
Tom Hardaway
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