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Richard Talbert, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will deliver the Archaeological Institute of America lecture at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 28, at the Nashville Parthenon. His lecture is entitled “The Magnificent Peutinger Map: Roman Cartography at its Most Creative.”

The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity, and Talbert offers a reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. He proposes that the map’s true purpose was not to assist travelers along Rome’s highways but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian’s tetrarchy.