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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.
William Smith. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. In the article on Soranus, we find: "at this present time (1848)" and this date seems to reflect the dates of works cited. 1873 - probably the printing date.
Author: Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948 Sir
Subject: Birds -- Greece; Birds -- Mythology; Greek language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: nrlf_ucsf:SFB-10087886
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: americana; cdl
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"Hazlitt's The Classical Gazetteer is a valuable dictionary of some 15,000 classical places-famous, obscure and jaw-droppingly obscure. Of the latter, most are absent from the common classical dictionaries."
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Some open-access reference resources useful for the study of paradoxography, though not generally concerned with wonders and marvels as such (e.g. Thompson's glossary of Greek birds; Smith's dictionary of ancient Geography).
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