A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English-language

English language

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 encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

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 first published in 1842 and then in many revised editions through 1890. Covering law, religion, architecture, warfare, daily life, and similar subjects primarily from the classicist

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

's standpoint, it was one of a series of reference works on classical antiquity

Classical antiquity

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 by William Smith

William Smith (lexicographer)

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; the others cover persons and places. It runs to well over a million words in any edition, and all editions are now in the public domain

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See also

• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
• Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines
  Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines
  The Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines d'après les textes et les monuments, contenant l'explication des termes qui se rapportent aux mœurs, aux institutions, à la religion, aux arts, aux sciences, au costume, au mobilier, à la guerre, à la marine, aux métiers, aux monnaies, poids et...
  
  
• List of online encyclopedias

External links

• 1890 edition at Perseus Project
  Perseus Project
  The Perseus Project is a digital library project of Tufts University that assembles digital collections of humanities resources. It is hosted by the Department of Classics. It has suffered at times from computer hardware problems, and its resources are occasionally unavailable...
  
  
• 1878 edition at Google Books, HTML
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• 1875 edition at LacusCurtius
  LacusCurtius
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  (about 50% of it: the Roman articles)
• 1870 edition, OCR at Ancient Library

In addition, an 1863 abridgment of the work, A Short Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, is also online, complete.