Richard J A Talbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J A Talbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Talbert |
| SIGNATURE | TALBERT R J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pliny the Elder's World: Natural History, Books 2-6
Atlas of Classical History: Revised Edition
Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece’s Bronze Age to Rome’s fall in the West. This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual grasp of the spatial dimension, a vital aspect for understanding history. Us…
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps
An English translation of Pliny’s geographical books for the 21st century
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Roads in the Roman World: Strategy for the Way Forward
Talbert urges that wide-ranging investigation of the roles of Roman roads in the cultures and mindsets of the Empire’s peoples has untapped potential; in the same vein so, too, does comparison of Rome’s roads with those of other pre-modern states worldwide noted for their highways. Also recommended and outlined is an initiative to create a digital, Empire-wide collection of Roman milestones; this would be first-rate scholarship, but designed to b…
Maps, Late Antiquity
The entry highlights the fresh creativity shown – often for a non‐cartographic purpose – in maps of the period, especially the Peutinger map. Attention is also drawn to the new cartographic visions based on classical knowledge that Christianity now inspired, as attested most strikingly in the Madaba mosaic map and the maps illustrating the Christian Topography of Kosmas Indikopleustes.
Challenges of Mapping the Classical World
Challenges of Mapping the Classical World collects together in one volume fourteen varied items written by Richard Talbert over the past thirty years. They cohere around the theme of mapping the classical world since the nineteenth century. All were originally prompted by Talbert’s commission in the late 1980s to produce a definitive classical atlas after more than a century of failed attempts by the Kieperts and others. These he evaluates, as we…
Mercury's Wings
Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first volume of essays on ancient communications. The authors, who include Classicists, art historians, Assyriologists, and Egyptologists, take the broad view of communications as a vehicle, not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, and culture. Encompassed within this scope are varied purposes of communication such as…
Cross-Cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World
This chapter deals with West–Asian cross-cultural interaction that developed during the Hellenistic period in the aftermath of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian Empire as the land and sea routes between the Mediterranean and India opened up. Despite their constant warfare, the kings that dominated this region established diplomatic ties influenced by a rich range of linguistic, visual, spatial, and ritual idioms. Canepa views Mauryan pillars an…
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9 Christopher Minkowski 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32 Kim Plofker 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43 Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu 5 Nonary Cosmography in An…
Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography's Forgotten Past
Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
Maps, Late Antiquity
After ca. 300 CE , active engagement with classical cartography continued.
Urbs Roma to Orbis Romanus: Roman Mapping on the Grand Scale
During the last two centuries BCE, the city of Rome emerged as a stimulating place with respect to geography and cartography. This chapter examines the cartography of two large display maps from ancient Rome. It looks at the ambitious maps produced during and after Agrippa's time and analyzes surviving examples of lost large Roman maps. In particular, it describes the marble plan of Rome and the Peutinger map.
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World
List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor s Preface xvii Preface xix Introduction 1 Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert 1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12 Jason Neelis 2 The Power of Highway Networks during China s Classical Era (323 BCE 316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33 Michael Nylan 3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructur…
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity mea…
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre‐Modern Societies
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
Atlas of Classical History
From the Bronze Age to the reign of Constantine, the Atlas of Classical History provides a comprehensive series of maps, diagrams, and commentary designed to meet the needs of classical scholars, as well as general readers. Over 135 maps of the Greek and Roman worlds clearly mark the political affiliations of the cities and states, major military events, trade routes, artistic, cultural and industrial centers, and colonization and exploration
Tacitus and the Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre
Tacitus and the Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre Richard J. A. Talbert When our seminar organizers generously invited me to contribute a paper on a topic of my choice, it was a surprise to learn that no discussion of the relationship between Tacitus and the SCPP had already been proposed. This relationship is, after all, one of the most rewarding aspects stemming from the discovery of the document, though inevitably in the limited space avai…
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250
The Senate and senatorial and equestrian posts
The quality of senatorial membership concerned Augustus, as well as its size. As his conduct of the reviews in 29 and 18 BC demonstrated, he was determined to rid the Senate of members who were immoral, irresponsible, or lacking means. From that time all members had to be worth at least one million sesterces rather than just showing the modest equestrian census of 400,000, which was all that had previously been required. He appreciated the strain…
The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69
The period described in Volume 10 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 1-6 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions …
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction
For the Greeks and Romans, the Earth's furthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these edges of the became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. This survey reveals that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as …
The Senate of Imperial Rome
Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly treatment. Offering a fresh approach to major ancient authors (Pliny and Tacitus in particular), the book also draws on inscriptions and legal writers never before fully exploited for the study of the …
Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity mea…
L'inventaire du monde: Geographie et politique aux orignes des l'Empire romain
Tacitus and the Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre
Tacitus and the Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre Richard J. A. Talbert When our seminar organizers generously invited me to contribute a paper on a topic of my choice, it was a surprise to learn that no discussion of the relationship between Tacitus and the SCPP had already been proposed. This relationship is, after all, one of the most rewarding aspects stemming from the discovery of the document, though inevitably in the limited space avai…
Mapping the classical world: Major atlases and map series 1872-1990
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Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9 Christopher Minkowski 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32 Kim Plofker 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43 Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu 5 Nonary Cosmography in An…
R. MacMullen, Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C.–A.D. 284. New Haven and London: Yale U.P., 1974. Pp. ix + 212. £3·75
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Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily, 344-317 B.C
Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily, 344-317 B. C
Preface Note on texts Abbreviations 1. Timoleon and Plutarch 2. The literary sources for Timoleon's career 3. The chronology of Timoleon's career in Sicily 4. Military studies 5. Punic policy in Sicily in the age of Timoleon 6. Timoleon and the Sicilian tyrants 7. Constitutional studies 8. Archaeological evidence for Timoleon's revival of the Greek zone of Sicily 9. Corinthian silver coinage and the Sicilian economy, c.340 to c.290 BC 10. Sicilia…
The Senate of Imperial Rome
Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly treatment. Offering a fresh approach to major ancient authors (Pliny and Tacitus in particular), the book also draws on inscriptions and legal writers never before fully exploited for the study of the …
The Senate of Imperial Rome
L'inventaire du monde: Geographie et politique aux orignes des l'Empire romain
Diocletian und die Erste Tetrarchie: Improvisation oder Experiment in der Organisation monarchischer Herrschaft
Prosopographie des femmes de l'ordre senatorial (Ier-IIe s.)
Corruption and the Decline of Rome
Mapping the classical world: Major atlases and map series 1872-1990
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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction
For the Greeks and Romans, the Earth's furthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these edges of the became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. This survey reveals that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as …
The Senate and senatorial and equestrian posts
The quality of senatorial membership concerned Augustus, as well as its size. As his conduct of the reviews in 29 and 18 BC demonstrated, he was determined to rid the Senate of members who were immoral, irresponsible, or lacking means. From that time all members had to be worth at least one million sesterces rather than just showing the modest equestrian census of 400,000, which was all that had previously been required. He appreciated the strain…
The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69
The period described in Volume 10 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 1-6 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions …
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250
Tacitus and the Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre
Tacitus and the Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre Richard J. A. Talbert When our seminar organizers generously invited me to contribute a paper on a topic of my choice, it was a surprise to learn that no discussion of the relationship between Tacitus and the SCPP had already been proposed. This relationship is, after all, one of the most rewarding aspects stemming from the discovery of the document, though inevitably in the limited space avai…
Atlas of Classical History
From the Bronze Age to the reign of Constantine, the Atlas of Classical History provides a comprehensive series of maps, diagrams, and commentary designed to meet the needs of classical scholars, as well as general readers. Over 135 maps of the Greek and Roman worlds clearly mark the political affiliations of the cities and states, major military events, trade routes, artistic, cultural and industrial centers, and colonization and exploration
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre‐Modern Societies
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
Maps, Late Antiquity
After ca. 300 CE , active engagement with classical cartography continued.
Urbs Roma to Orbis Romanus: Roman Mapping on the Grand Scale
During the last two centuries BCE, the city of Rome emerged as a stimulating place with respect to geography and cartography. This chapter examines the cartography of two large display maps from ancient Rome. It looks at the ambitious maps produced during and after Agrippa's time and analyzes surviving examples of lost large Roman maps. In particular, it describes the marble plan of Rome and the Peutinger map.
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World
List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor s Preface xvii Preface xix Introduction 1 Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert 1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12 Jason Neelis 2 The Power of Highway Networks during China s Classical Era (323 BCE 316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33 Michael Nylan 3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructur…
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity mea…
Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9 Christopher Minkowski 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32 Kim Plofker 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43 Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu 5 Nonary Cosmography in An…
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