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Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered

The Peutinger map or Tabula Peutingeriana (as it is referred to by Talbert) is an incomplete map of the Roman world, conserved in the Austrian National Library, which includes an elaborate network of routes. It is formed of eleven single parchment segments, designed to be joined together side by side to create a long ribbon. Talber’s work constitutes the first book in English dedicated to the features, context and history of the Peutinger map. Since its appearance, other books dealing with the map as a medieval artefact have also been published, completing and sometimes challenging Talbert’s work. According to Talbert, the Peutinger map, produced in around 1200, is a copy of a lost original dating to the era of Diocletian’s tetrarchy (c.300). The book is composed of an introduction, five chapters, a conclusion, nine appendices, endnotes, bibliography, an index and a gazetteer. It contains several illustrations (especially in Chapter 5) which help to contextualise and explain the map. Other important additions to the book are the digital material – in particular, a dynamic map viewer published online, which allows the user to zoom, navigate and overlay additional details onto the map’s layers. Talbert is the author of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and a leading expert on ancient cartography. Following the example of his earlier work, he has made a great contribution to scholarship with his digital reconstruction of the map, which includes comments on all the names and features on the map and an outline of rivers and routes. In the introduction (pp. 1–9), Talbert openly affirms that the original map was part of a decorative scheme for a public space inside an imperial palace of the Tetrarchic period (around 300 CE). This view challenges an earlier approach, which asserted that the map was created for purely practical purposes. Moreover, Talbert asserts that this is a map without any close match in any period or culture worldwide; he demonstrates this in his conclusion by placing it in relation to classical cartography and comparing it with other medieval examples. He also affirms that the map’s innovative design and content made a widespread impact that continued to be felt for many centuries. In the first chapter (pp. 10–72), Talbert reviews the history of the map, which was discovered by Conrad Celtis around 1500 and bequeathed to Peutinger. Talbert refers to the various publications of the map and to the Codex Vindobonensis 324 (as it is labelled in the Austrian National Library). What seems clear is that, despite its value, the map remained neglected and was presumed to have been lost during the seventeenth century. Talbert refers to the scholars who worked on the map in order of their importance and not simply chronologically. He