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[2nd edition] ; xv, 1701 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm ; LCCN: 61-13268 ; LC: DE5; Dewey: 913.38 ; OCLC: 10297668 ; Massive, thick volume ; red textured boards ; no dustjacket ; "The Dictionary includes articles on all the important personages of classical antiquity in every sphere of effort, whether military, literary, political, or artistic. The greatest of the Christian Fathers have been added to the list, both because of the general interest of their relation to the history of the Later Empire, and because, to the student of language their writings are of marked importance in the study of plebeian Latin and the development of the later dialects of Greek. Among the biographies which the Dictionary contains will be found also those of the great classical scholars and philologists of later times, and extending into our own century, since these represent distinct stages in the development of classical study, and their lives, when taken collectively, give a suggestive outline of the history of Classical Philology. The names of living scholars, for obvious reasons, have been excluded from the list. All the mythological personages whose names appear and reappear in the pages of the Greek and Roman writers are the subjects of separate articles which carefully distinguish the Hellenic myths from those that are essentially Italic. The names of all countries, provinces, states, cities, and other localities that are mentioned by the most read of the classical writers will be found as separate titles. he principal political events of Greek and Roman history form the subjects of special articles. A large portion of the work is devoted to the discussion of subjects relating to the Amusements, Art. Costume. Domestic Life, Law, Music, Numismatics, Philosophy, Religion, and Science of the ancients. It has been thought desirable to provide the student, for purposes of ready reference. such as Alliteration, the African Latinity, Dialects, Grammar, Grimm's Law, the Indo-European Languages, Onomatopoeia, Philology, the Pronunciation of Greek, the Pronunciation of Latin, Rhotacism, the Sermo Plebeius, and Vomer's Law. [The] Dictionary contains some fifteen hundred [illustrations]" ; exhaustive ; VG, except the section from pages 1293 to 1394 was bound upside down[!]. Seller Inventory # 007213
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