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How long does it take to read Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World?

Richard J. A. Talbert

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by Richard J. A. Talbert takes about 26 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 26 hours 26 minutes

A long haul

First published 2000. 1,442 pages, about 396,550 words.

53 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 44 hours 4 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 26 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 16 hours 31 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity (640 AD). The atlas was published by Princeton University Press in 2000. The book was the winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities.

Subjects: Roman empire, geography, cartography, atlas, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece

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