Richard Talbert

1947 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Corpus Christi College, The King's School Canterbury

occupation: historian, classical scholar

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Goodwin Award, Institute for Advanced Study, Society for Classical Studies

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 and is currently Research Professor in charge of the Ancient World Mapping Center. Talbert is a leading scholar of ancient geography and ideas of space in the ancient Mediterranean world. Source: Wikipedia (en)