The Cassell Atlas Of The Classical World

This atlas takes a look at the history of the world between 500BC and AD600. There are 32 encyclopedic entries, offering an A-Z guide to the people, places and events that shaped the classical world.

A complete guide to every region of the world between the years 4,000,000 BC and AD 500. This is a full-colour atlas with annotations, timelines and summary text. There is a detailed A-Z encyclopedic section, with articles on the people, places and events that shaped the development of the ancient world. The atlas shows political and social developments, wars and military campaigns, religious and cultural change. It is fully cross-referenced and indexed.

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.

From Alexandria to York, this title allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. It features 120 maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. It also includes incisive commentary on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary inhabitants.

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 well as probing the Smith/Grove atlas, a successful twenty-year initiative launched in the mid-1850s, with a cartographic approach that departs radically from established practice. Talbert’s initial vision for the international collaborative project that resulted in the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000) is presented, and the successive twice-yearly reports on its progress from 1991 through to completion are published here for the first time. A further item reflects retrospectively on the project’s cartographic challenges and on how developments in digital map production were decisive in overcoming them. This volume will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in the development and growing impact of mapping the classical world.