Smith greek and roman biography books

Encyclopedia and biographical dictionary ed.

A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography ...

by William Smith (1849)

The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is a biographical dictionary of classical antiquity, edited by William Smith and originally published in London by Taylor, Walton (and Maberly) and John Murray from 1844 to 1849 in three volumes of more than 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century lexicography.

The work is a companion to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.^[1]

Authors and scope

The work lists thirty-five authors in addition to the editor, who was also the author of the unsigned articles. The other authors were classical scholars, primarily from Oxford, Cambridge, Rugby School, and the University of Bonn, but some were from other institutions.

Many of the mythological entries were the work of the German expatriate Leonhard Schmitz, who helped to A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography ... LESE