The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

When I reviewed the third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) (Hornblower and Spawforth, 2003) (RR 2003/352) I commented on the fundamental place of its previous edition in my own classical education. So on looking at this new encyclopedia from the same publishers, my obvious first question is what is its relationship with OCD? An admirable preface to this work explains it clearly enough, and the explanation is confirmed by examination of the contents. They are, indeed, complementary to one another. To quote: “The two works are quite different in scope […] OCD...