The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3rd edition)

The publication of encyclopedic volumes offering students of classical languages a handy guide to the myriad of references and allusions in those literatures goes back at least to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with works such as the dictionaries of John Lempriere (1788) and Sir William Smith (1844). The present volume under the editorship of Margaret Howatson of St Anne's College, Oxford is the third edition of the work first prepared by Sir Paul Harvey in 1937. In keeping with the rest of the Oxford companions series Harvey's intention was that his work would provide a useful source of information...