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Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines

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represented a work of extraordinary volume and was published at a slow pace. It took eleven issuings to finally complete volume 1, which spanned 1,703 pages and only covered through the letter C, in 1886. The first volume included 3,000 illustrations. Each of the eleven parts of the first volume,
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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
144:, John E. B. Mayor praised the result, saying "No other nation as yet possesses anything approaching to it in beauty and completeness; it is absolutely necessary to every classical library and to every public library frequented by scholars or artists." 167:
Today the dictionary has value as a legacy work, amongst the other large dictionaries of antiquity that appeared in Europe around the same time: starting in 1893, the Germans published the monumental
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s writing. The problems of studies of classical antiquity have also been profoundly renewed in the intervening years thanks to the contributions of
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Although the articles are sourced from scholarship in a number of different fields, its contents are no longer up-to-date because of
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of German universities, who were the uncontested masters in the field from 1810 onward. In an 1887 review of the first volume of the
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began in 1886; the English also published several dictionaries concerning the fields of
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mesures, etc. etc., et en général à la vie publique et privée des anciens
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and published in 10 volumes between 1873 and 1919 by the publisher
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Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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French-language
dictionary
Ancient Greece
Rome
Charles Victor Daremberg
Edmond Saglio
Hachette Livre
Paris
classical
François Lenormant
quarto
francs
Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
classical antiquity
William Smith
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
archaeological
epigraphical
numismatic
sociology
anthropology
"Review of 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 mesures, etc. etc., et en général à la vie publique et privée des anciens"
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10.1017/S0009840X00182423

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