WALTON AND MABERLY'S CATALOGUE. 



from the earliest times to the fall of the Eastern Empire, in 1453. It contains full 

 histories of the lives of all personages, either distinguished as influencing the destinies 

 of nations, or eminent in literature, science, philosophy, theology, or the arts. The 

 work is the resultof the joint labours of twenty-nine writers, whose names are attached 

 to their respective articles the divisions of subjects having been severally allotted to 

 such of the contributors as had made them more or less their peculiar study. The 

 biographies are not exclusively classical, but embrace the wider field of literature in 

 general. Copious accounts are given of the writings of mathematicians, jurists, 

 physicians, historians, poets, philosophers, and orators. The Latin and Greek Christian 

 fathers also occupy considerable space ; and the lives of painters, sculptors, and 

 architects, contain details, useful to the artist, of all their works still extant, or of 

 which there is any record in ancient writei-s. In fact, the work exhibits a view of the 

 whole circle of ancient history and literature for upwards of two thousand years. All 

 the articles are founded 011 an examination of the primary sources of information, and 

 of the best and latest modern authorities, foreign and English ; and are embellished, 

 whenever possible, by woodcuts, taken from ancient coins. Extensive chronological 

 tables of Greek and Roman history are added ; and a table exhibiting at a glance the 

 year B.C. or A.D. corresponding to any given A.TJ.C. or Olympiad. 



A NEW CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY, MY- 

 THOLOGY, and GEOGRAPHY. Partly based on the " Dictionary of 

 Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology." By Dr. WILLIAM SMITH. 

 Second Edition. 8vo. 15s. cloth. 



The old Classical Dictionaries having become obsolete, from the vastly increased 

 information which the researches of modern scholars have attained on historical 

 subjects, this Dictionary is presented to the student as embodying the accurate parti- 

 culars which recent discoveries have arrived at, respecting the manners, customs, 

 history, and literature of antiquity. 



The work contains articles on the most important names, Biographical, Mythological, 

 and Geographical, occurring in the Greek and Roman classics. 



The Biographical portion comprehends the departments of History, of Literature, 

 and of Art. All names of note are included, up to A.D. 470, and a few remarkable ones 

 beyond that epoch. The Literary articles occupy considerable space, and embrace 

 all Greek and Roman writers whose works either are extant, or, though lost, have 

 exercised an important influence on learning. The best modern editions of the works 

 of the several authors are indicated at the end of the articles relating to thevn. The 

 history of Ancient Art has also a large space devoted to it. 



In the Mythological articles, care has been taken to exclude all indelicate allusions ; 

 and the Greek and Roman Mythology are kept distinct, by treating separately of the 

 Greek divinities under their Greek names, and the Roman under their Roman names 

 a method adopted by modern authorities, both here and on the continent, and calcu- 

 lated to remove and prevent many errors and misconceptions. 



In the Geographical portion have been embodied all the latest discoveries of travellers 

 relating to the identification of modern localities with ancient sites. 



The work will also be found of great use to Biblical Students in elucidating points 

 connected with the Geography of the Scriptures, and explaining the numerous allusions 

 to classical subjects contained in the Sacred Writers. 



A SMALLER CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY, 



MYTHOLOGY, AND GEOGRAPHY. Abridged from the larger Dic- 

 tionary. Illustrated by 200 Engravings on Wood. By Dr. WILLIAM 

 SMITH. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. cloth. 



This work is designed for junior students, and contains so much of the subjects of 

 the larger Classical Dictionary as is necessary for understanding the Greek and 

 Roman Classics generally read in schools. It is more adapted, in size as well as in 

 price, to younger pupils ; and for their benefit, not only has the quantity of the 

 syllables of each name been carefully marked, but the genitive cases have been 

 inserted. 



A new and pleasing feature is introduced into this volume, viz.. the illustration 

 of the Mythological articles, by drawings from ancient works of art. These will give 

 the young beginner a more vivid and adequate conception of the symbols and figures 

 typical of the deities and heroes, than he could possibly obtain in any other manner ; 

 and will thus enlist his interest in the objects of ancient Greek and Roman worship. 



