birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
united kingdom 26 april 1947 richard talbert
 richard j. a. talbert ancient historian
richard talbert

richard john alexander talbert -lrb- born 1947 -rrb- is a contemporary british-american ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the university of north carolina at chapel hill , where he is william rand kenan , jr. , professor of ancient history and classics .
talbert is a leading scholar of ancient geography and the idea of space in the ancient mediterranean world .
