Richard Talbert

Talbert received his education at The King's School Canterbury and Corpus Christi College , Cambridge University , where he gained Double First Class Honours in Classics (1968), followed by a Ph.D. (1972). Cambridge granted him an honorary Litt. D. in 2003. He is also a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. Talbert has been on the faculties of the Queen's University , Belfast and McMaster University in Ontario , Canada . He was Herodotus Fellow at the Institute For Advanced Study , Princeton, New Jersey (1978-79). His study ''The Senate of Imperial Rome'' ( Princeton University Press , 1984) won the American Philological Association 's Goodwin Award of Merit in 1985.

For 2000-01 Talbert was awarded a J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an American Council Of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, and the inaugural Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina . Among his scholary work is the compilation of the '' Barrington Atlas Of The Greek And Roman World '' (Princeton, 2000).

PUBLICATIONS

ed. with Kai Brodersen ''Space in the Roman World, its Perception and Presentation'' (LIT, Munster, 2004).

with M.T. Boatwright and D. Gargola ''The Romans: From Village to Empire'' (Oxford, 2004). ''A Brief History of the Romans'', based on this 2004 book, is due to appear from Oxford in 2006.

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	CATEGORIES ABOUT RICHARD TALBERT

	english historians

	talbert, richard

	classical scholars

	university of north carolina at chapel hill faculty

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