Richard J. A. Talbert | |
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| Born | 26 April 1947 |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Ancient historian, classicist |
| Known for | Roman Senate, Tabula Peutingeriana, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World |
Richard John Alexander Talbert (born 26 April 1947) is a British-American contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History (1988-2020) and then Research Professor in charge of the Ancient World Mapping Center until his retirement in 2024.[1] Talbert is a leading scholar of ancient geography and ideas of space in the ancient Mediterranean world.