Scanned Classical Works

The following works are available here scanned in their entirety:

Classical Dictionaries

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867) — three-volume, 3,700-page ocean of Greek and Roman historical, literary and mythological figures. 
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1870) — 1,300-page compendium of information on the classical world; excluding biography and geography
• Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Oskar Seyffert (1894) — guide to the ancient world, with 716 pages, 2,630 entries and over 450 illustrations.
• Classical Gazetteer by William Hazlitt (1851) — a dictionary of some 14,000 ancient Greek and Roman places.

See the bookshelf for other scanned works...

Other Works

More: See the Bookshelf for all 14 scanned works, including the "Lost Loebs."

Most recent additions: Halliday, Greek Divination (1913), G. M. Edwards, An English-Greek Lexicon (1930).

What is this?

You've reached the first stirrings of a major new classics resource. So far, we're mostly testing the engine and working on architecture. Don't be fooled; this is going to be a major site in the near future, including:

• Scanned secondary works, including classical dictionaries, histories, grammars and other classics books.
• A large collection of primary texts, both scanned and in HTML text. All primary sources will allow Wiki-style commentary.
• A "Wiki Classical Dictionary" users can edit, similar in some respects to Wikipedia.
• Community mechanisms, including forums for classicists and others interested in the ancient world to interact.

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Does this sound interesting to you? Do you have any ideas? Get involved! We're going to need editors, and lots of user feedback. Write the editor, Tim Spalding, at editor@isidore-of-seville.com.

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