ABSTRACT
As part of the planning for what was to become the Barrington Atlas (see item 8), the item breaks new ground by summarizing and evaluating the successive major initiatives to map the classical world between the 1870s and 1990. Most important among them are, prior to World War I, Smith’s Atlas of Ancient Geography and Grundy’s reuses of it commissioned by John Murray (see further items 2 and 3); Sieglin’s Atlas Antiquus; and the Kieperts’ rival Formae Orbis Antiqui (see further item 5). From the 1920s, the nature, growth and vicissitudes of the international Tabula Imperii Romani gain fullest attention. Also appraised are two other projects both tangential in scope but instructive for their methods and goals, the Austrian Tabula Imperii Byzantini and the German Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Finally, note is taken of Hammond’s Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity (1981) as the latest classical atlas.
